Unrest quotes
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Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
-- Abdul Kalam -
[There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], "namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state.
-- Ali Khamenei -
All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.
-- Brit Marling -
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Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
-- Felix Adler -
Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest.
-- George MacDonald -
Subjection to fear is weakness, bondage, feverish unrest. To be afraid is to have no soul that we can call our own; it is to be at the beck and call of alien powers, to be chained and driven and tormented; it is to lose the life itself in the anxious care to keep it.
-- Henry Van Dyke -
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Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and depths, the scope Of all our universe, with desperate hope To find some solace for your wild unrest.
-- James Thomson -
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
-- John Boyd Orr -
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
-- Joseph A. Schumpeter -
There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest.
-- Julian Barnes -
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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
-- Karl A. Menninger -
I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that's one of the reasons for campus unrest.
-- Kent McCord -
It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
-- Le Corbusier -
In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.
-- Leland Stanford -
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No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction , a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
-- Martha Graham -
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
-- Maurice Maeterlinck -
Research shows that the wealthier, more educated, and healthier a nation, the less violence and civil unrest among its populace, and the less likely that unrest will spread across its borders.
-- Peter Diamandis -
Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
-- Plato -
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Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and their mood of anxiety.
-- Sigmund Freud -
But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest in another part of the world, gasoline prices jump up. We need a renewable fuel industry that's more than corn-based, of course, and there are a whole series of great opportunities here.
-- Tom Vilsack -
This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee from the physical world and towards the world of ideas.
-- Peter Adamson
