William Randolph Hearst Quotes

'Balance' is a soft word. It implies calm, something almost yogic, but that's not it at all. The process is always chaotic and turbulent.

Turmoil stimulates.

Change will always be violent.

War is unsettling.

Chaos does not unify. Chaos only serves the most extreme elements of society that seek to destabilize any semblance of order to fulfill their selfish lust for power.

I unsettle all things.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

There's a battle outside raging It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls for the times they are a-changing.

… a major threat to regional stability.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

I come from a place of lots of turmoil.

There is no tranquility in ideas.

The world has not just "turned upside down". It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.

Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see the processes that are leading toward these clusters of events, they’re happening. The star, the wheel, the butterfly—all are in a subtle state of unrest, waiting for the moment when some invisible mechanism signals that the time has come. Then the star explodes; the wheel makes poor men rich; the butterfly mates and dies.

The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.

No season now for calm, familiar talk.

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.