#upheaval

Bahrain lies at the epicenter of Gulf security and any violent upheaval in Bahrain would have enormous geopolitical consequences. Global economic stability depends on the uninterrupted export of crude oil from the Gulf to markets around the world - a job that historically has been assigned to the U.S. Fifth Fleet. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#around #assigned #bahrain #been #consequences

Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals. ↗

— Ali Hoseini-Khamenei

#changes #examine #find #ideals #many

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#earth #earthquake #europe #fixed #great

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#cold #cold war #depression #great #great depression

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future. ↗

— Louise J. Kaplan

#between #cling #emotional #equally #eternal

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

#disparity #dynamic #expansion #few #get

You have been so sheltered, Deeta - more even than your sisters. You know nothing of life or of people, in truth I think both scare you. You have little experience of anything but Tom and I and the children. You carved out a little niche for yourself with us, somewhere you were comfortable and safe. With each passing day I have watched you close yourself off from all that is new until it becomes impossible to answer the question of who you are because you do not know yourself. I think you have courage and that you are resourceful, maybe you are brave. But at this moment I see you look at upheaval and adventure with fright in your soul, so that you see only the bad and no good at all. ↗

— D.D. Chant

#fear #friendship #innocence #life #upheaval

If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarisation and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#been #change #country #dictatorships #difficult