Political Turmoil Quotes:

Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.

- Lionel Shriver

source: Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.25, Counterpoint Press

topic: Country, Political, Entertainment, Political Turmoil

In a world of unrest and fear, political turmoil and moral drift, I testify that Jesus is the Christ—that He is the living Bread and living Water—still, yet, and always the great Shield of safety in our lives.

- Jeffrey R. Holland

topic: Jesus, Safety, Water, Political Turmoil

He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Party, Political, Reform, Political Turmoil, Bipartisan

I was raised in a country [South Africa] with a lot of political turmoil. I was part of a culture and a generation that suppressed people and lived under apartheid regimes. I don't know how you can come out of that and not have an awareness for the world. I think that if my life had turned out any other way and I was working in a bank, I would still feel this way about it, because there's a connection to humanity that to me is really important.

- Charlize Theron

source: Source: wwd.com

topic: Country, Thinking, People, Political Turmoil

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

- Morgan Parker

source: "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

topic: Art, Political, Looks, Political Turmoil, Fertile Ground

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

- Morgan Parker

topic: Political Turmoil, Processing

In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Thinking, Views, Political, Political Turmoil

In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America's ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.

- Aberjhani

topic: Dream, Kings, Military, Political Turmoil, I Have A Dream Speech

My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Happiness, Passion, Political, Political Turmoil