Dylan Thomas
Poet, Writer
"I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me."
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Upheaval
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Jung Chang
Author
"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."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same."
John F. Kennedy
Politician
"We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations."
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"Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane."
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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."
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