Upheaval Quotes - Page 2

• What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.

  Jung Chang

  War, Chinese, Levels

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• A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Civilization, Healthy, Progress

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.56, Princeton University Press

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• Times of upheaval require not just more leadership but more leaders. People at all organizational levels, whether anointed or self-appointed, must be empowered to share leadership responsibilities.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Responsibility, Self, People

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• The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Years, Political, Expansion

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• Many years before, I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Country

  "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal", Nuremberg, Germany, 1948.

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• Mi nacimiento no sacudió el Imperio alemán ni causó grandes trastornos en el hogar. Complació a madre, causó cierto orgullo a padre y a mi hermano mayor los habituales celos fraternales de un hijo hasta entonces único.

  Conrad Veidt

  Celos, Madre, Hermano

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• Para ser claros, el cambio climático es un verdadero gorila de 800 libras en la habitación. Los efectos del calentamiento global amenazan con trastornar el medio ambiente mundial durante el próximo siglo. Pero para el sur de Florida y los Everglades, podría ser nuestra sentencia de muerte si no se toman medidas urgentes.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Tomado, Florida, Medio ambiente

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• Pero a través de guerras mundiales y una Gran Depresión, a través de una dolorosa agitación social y una Guerra Fría, y ahora a través de los ataques del 11 de septiembre de 2001, nuestra nación ha sobrevivido.

  Nick Rahall

  Pain, War, September 11

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• This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.

  Doris Lessing

  Song, Joy, Shapes

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• People from authoritarian, male-dominated, punitive families tend to vote for "strongman" leaders and for "hard" punitive policies (prisons, wars) rather than "soft" caring policies (healthcare, childcare). Not everyone from this background does. But many people do. And this conditioning can be exploited, as Trump's campaign did, especially in times like ours of economic, social, and technological upheaval.

  Riane Eisler

  War, Caring, People

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The onset of this second movement is characterized by the falling away of self and coming upon "that" which remains when it is gone. But this going-out is an upheaval, a complete turnabout of such proportions it cannot possibly be missed, under-emphasized, or sufficiently stressed as a major landmark in the contemplative life.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Fall, Contemplative Life, Self

  Bernadette Roberts (1993). “The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey”, p.13, SUNY Press

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• Here they are, all in one place. Circle back to them when you need some poetic shine.
  It is not revolutions and upheavals that clear the road to better days,
  but revelations, and lavishness of someone's soul inspired, and ablaze.

  Boris Pasternak

  Inspirational, Circles, Shining

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• It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs. It is the same land which stands firmer than any rock in the world, with its undying vigour, indestructible life. Its life is of the same nature as the soul, without beginning and without end, immortal; and we are the children of such a country.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Children, Land

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1196, Manonmani Publishers

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• Todo lo establecido y asentado, todo lo que tiene que ver con el hogar, el orden y la tierra común, se ha convertido en polvo y ha sido barrido en la agitación general y la reorganización de toda la sociedad. Todo el modo de vida humano ha sido destruido y arruinado. Todo lo que queda es el alma humana desnuda y temblorosa, despojada hasta la última brizna, la fuerza desnuda de la psique humana para la que nada ha cambiado porque siempre fue fría y temblorosa y tendía la mano a su vecino más cercano, tan frío y solitario como ella misma.

  Boris Pasternak

  Lonely, Home, Dust

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• Many who have nothing opposed to the few who have everything, and as long as these disparities remain, as long as these distances remain between people and forces, I think we'll be in a perpetual state of upheaval.

  Harry Belafonte

  Distance, Thinking, Long

  "Actor-activist Harry Belafonte, Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 30, 2011.

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• At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.

  Thomas Piketty

  Lying, Heart, Political

  Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.493, Harvard University Press

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• Crees que el fin justifica los medios, por viles que sean. Yo te digo: el fin es el medio para conseguirlo. El paso de hoy es la vida de mañana. Los grandes fines no pueden alcanzarse con medios viles. Lo habéis demostrado en todas vuestras convulsiones sociales. La mezquindad y la inhumanidad de los medios os hacen mezquinos e inhumanos y hacen inalcanzable el fin.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Mean, Thinking, Unattainable

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• La tierra prometida a Abraham y a sus descendientes vuelve a ser suya. Dios siempre cumple sus promesas. Incluso en tiempos de cataclismos y cambios, el amor y la fidelidad de Dios son inmutables.

  Lynn Austin

  Land, Promise, Faithfulness

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• Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon our European soil and, as one of countless human beings, I can't claim any special place for myself except that, as an Austrian, a Jew, writer, humanist and pacifist, I have always been precisely in those places where the effects of the thrusts were most violent.

  Stefan Zweig

  Special, Soil, Violent

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• The fundamental landscape of biology is undergoing a major upheaval, much as it did in the first decades of the 20th Century. This upheaval will take time to fully reveal its implications.

  Michael R. Rose

  Fundamentals, Landscape, Firsts

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• I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions-only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. ... This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Night, Feet, Discovery

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). "El problema de nacer", Viking Books.

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• The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Vocabulary, Blind Spots, People

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). "El arte de ser gobernado"

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• The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to have been overshadowed by the upheavals in the region.  I have followed events there for almost 40 years. I am convinced that what is needed for a solution is not only the willingness to negotiate in good faith but also to take into account the needs and sensibility of the negotiating partner. I, for one, just cannot believe that the value of settlements for Israel is bigger than the damage these settlements do as an obstacle to peace.

  Heinz Fischer

  Believe, Israel, Years

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• The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.

  Anne O'Hare McCormick

  War, Blood, Roots

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• As I have heard Bush say, only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness, in part because the epochal upheavals of war provide the opportunity for transformative change of the kind Bush hoped to achieve. In Iraq, Bush saw his opportunity to create a legacy of greatness.

  Scott McClellan

  War, Opportunity, Greatness

  Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, p.131, PublicAffairs

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