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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life. -- Karl A. Menninger
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness. -- Maurice Maeterlinck
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. -- Andre Gide
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor. -- Clare Boothe Luce
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. -- John Boyd Orr
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me. -- Anatole France
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us. -- Carl Jung
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life. -- Henry Van Dyke
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. -- Leland Stanford
This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002. -- Daniel Yergin
The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor. -- Jennifer Granholm
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment. -- Felix Adler
We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act. -- Don Young
It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake. -- Bille August
If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse. -- Jane Addams
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction , a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others. -- Martha Graham
I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions; I don't believe this machine age gives full satisfaction in a spiritual way, if the term may be allowed. -- Robert E. Howard
Some said America took a step forward electing a black president. In light of the unconstitutiona l expansion of powers, lack of transparency and fueling the fires of unrest that clearly hasn't been the case. Vote based on merits, not to fill a racial quota. -- Denzel Washington
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. -- Milton Friedman
...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science and technology - while in the other, certainty and confidence steadily decline. Our age is a master in developing truths while being wholly indifferent to certitude. It lacks confidence in the good. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest. -- George MacDonald
To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities. -- Dalai Lama
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water. -- Albert Schweitzer
Unrest is the mark of existence. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Unrest and uncertainty are our lot. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest. -- Stephen Hawking
This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war. -- Charles Kennedy
I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable. -- Brit Marling
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. -- Li Keqiang
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. -- Kent McCord
If you cut down the forest, you know what happens: The whole of Asia turns into a desert. Without water, you're talking civil unrest, war, mud slides - the whole bloody lot. -- Mark Shand
It has come to my attention that Missouri state and local law enforcement agencies may be in need of additional resources due to the unanticipated costs of responding to the unrest in Ferguson. -- Roy Blunt
By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. -- Stephen Kinzer
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
When the government is handed over to the Iraqi Council on 30 June, many have declared, oh, the Americans must never leave because civil unrest may erupt. Well, I agree, we cannot abruptly depart, but Iraq needs to step up to the plate on 30 June. -- Howard Coble
Experience proves that in this life peace and satisfaction are had, not by the listless but by those who are fervent in God's service. And rightly so. For in their effort to overcome themselves and to rid themselves of self-love, they rid themselves of the roots of all passion and unrest. -- Saint Ignatius
My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest... -- Alexander Smith
The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest. -- Diane Ackerman
Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest. -- John Keats
There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest. -- Julian Barnes
Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis. -- Christine Lagarde
The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence. -- Walt Dohrn
Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict. -- Kofi Annan
All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent -- John Steinbeck
The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where unrest occurs. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be? -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. -- Sterling Hayden
Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create. -- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
A mind that is characterized by unrest will not be tranquil even in the presence of great calm. -- Dalai Lama
I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write. -- Franz Kafka
When we empower Iran, then get ready for more unrest and more murder and more violence in the Middle East. -- Chris Christie
It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution. -- Le Corbusier
The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest. -- L. Ron Hubbard
[There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], "namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state. -- Ali Khamenei
Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world. -- Albert Camus
Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven. -- Frederick William Faber
A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings. -- Don Marquis
Things were very different back in 1992. There was unrest in the Middle East, we had a gridlocked Congress, and everybody was talking about Bill Cosby. -- Craig Ferguson
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. -- William James
Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires. -- Leo Tolstoy
Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires." -- Leo Tolstoy
We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster. -- Wayne LaPierre
Set in a nameless colonial country, in an unspecified era, Katie Kitamura's second novel tracks the fortunes of a landowning family during the first waves of civil unrest. -- Sarah Hall
The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ. -- Pope John Paul II
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life." -- Henry Van Dyke
To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever-or else swoon in death. -- John Keats
This obstinate will to personal happiness is the cause of unrest and division in your soul. Give it up and work against it: the rest will be given you without effort. -- Tito Colliander
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. -- Jay Leno
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. -- Ray Davies
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. -- Peter Diamandis
We've got a lot of violence in the world right now, a lot of upheaval in America with this election coming up, and a lot of unrest will come up from that. -- Christine McCormick Day
This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee from the physical world and towards the world of ideas. -- Peter Adamson
That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is. -- Jurgen Moltmann
That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is. -- Jurgen Moltmann
The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled. -- Douglas MacArthur
Our history in this country dates from the moment that restless men among us became restless under oppression and rose against it . . . Agitation, contentions, ceaseless unrest, constant aspiring -- a race so moved must prevail. -- Timothy Thomas Fortune
In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections. -- Alfred North Whitehead

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