Political Turmoil Quotes

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

  Lionel Shriver

  Country, Political, Entertainment

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

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• 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

  Jesus, Safety, Water

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• 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

  Party, Political, Reform

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• 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

  Country, Thinking, People

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

  Morgan Parker

  Art, Political, Looks

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

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

  Morgan Parker

  Thinking, Artist, Giving

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• 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

  Thinking, Views, Political

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• 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

  Dream, Kings, Military

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• 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

  Happiness, Passion, Political

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