Top 1200 Social Unrest Quotes & Sayings

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

Unrest is the mark of existence.

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.

When suspicion and hostility is allowed to fester, it can erupt into unrest.

The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives, the better and the worse. Civilization is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however, unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilization, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilization there is always an element of unrest.

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.

We have already seen Iran sending spoofed emails, designed to intimated voters, incite social unrest and damage President Trump.

The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where unrest occurs.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

When I'm having a song-in-the-shower moment, I go to 'The Blessed Unrest' by Sara Bareilles.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.

Climate change is a fact, disrupting the environment, and also affecting economies, disease vectors, and political unrest worldwide.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

China reformed its state sector before, in the late 1990s. Tens of millions were laid off at the time. That was scary and we had warnings of social unrest. But it did not happen. Instead, there was a restructuring in our economic system. I am not sure if China will follow a Western playbook in this respect.

The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as its existence.

Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.

My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest.

Toward the end of the '90s, it got pretty rough for me - a lot of emotional unrest and problems with my relationships. That affected my career.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

The price of oil is rising because of all the unrest in the Middle East. And the unrest in Wisconsin is causing the price of cheese to go through the roof.

High levels of inequality generate high costs for society, dampening social mobility, undermining the labour market prospects of vulnerable social groups, and creating social unrest.

The legacy of the Freddie Gray unrest? I think that remains to be determined.

... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the strongest force in developing social discontent, swelling the powerful tide of unrest that sweeps onward and over the dam of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition.

It is man - whether believer or non-believer - who is responsible for global unrest. And it is human beings who have to learn to co-exist in the 21st century, outside of divisive social constructs, religious or otherwise.

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.

Realization of this need means adults must awaken to the urgency of the young people's unrest-in other words there must be created an adult unrest against the inequities and injustices in the present system. If the government is in jeopardy, it is not because we are unable to cope with revolutionary situations. Jeopardy means that either the leaders or the people do not realize they have all the tools required to make the revolution come true. The tools and the opportunity exist. Only the moral imagination is missing.

As a technologist, I see the trends, and I see that automation inevitably is going to mean fewer and fewer jobs. And if we do not find a way to provide a basic income for people who have no work, or no meaningful work, we’re going to have social unrest that could get people killed. When we have increasing production - year after year after year - some of that needs to be reinvested in society.

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest.

The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

Small businesses forget how to be social. Everyone tries to do social media when they should just try being social. To be successful with social media, you have to treat each individual person just like you would in real life by establishing a genuine connection with them.

A mind that is characterized by unrest will not be tranquil even in the presence of great calm.

Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

I was one of those students that would protest and think the unrest will help create a revolution.

This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war.

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.

I just don't feel that we've traveled very far in the realm of social equality. There just seems to be a little bit of unrest. And sometimes I think that happens when you really feel like something's about to change. Right before the moment of lift off, sometimes things feel a little bit unhinged, and that's what it feels like to me right now, both as a woman and just as a human on the planet as an American woman in America. I feel like we're on the precipice of change. I feel a little nervous.

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest.

[There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state.

Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.

There are many countries in the world that when they reached the middle-income stage, they witnessed serious structural problems such as growth stagnation, a widening wealth gap and increasing social unrest.

I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially it implies social difference--it presumes and implies the presence of social division. Some can be free only in so far as there is a form of dependence they can aspire to escape.

Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality.

Don't get depressed when you read the press about world revolution and social unrest. Try not to panic when you switch on the news and see crooked politicians and unemployment queues.

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.

The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws. We regard the minimum wage law as one of the most, if not the most, anti-black laws on the statute books.

I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.