Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

War is unsettling.

I come from a place of lots of turmoil.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

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.

The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.

Turmoil stimulates.

The Middle East is undoubtedly in for a rocky time. In Palestine we have a situation which is badly fouled up by the past mistakes of many people, including ourselves. These probably cannot be settled without great unpleasantness, including violence.

… a major threat to regional stability.

Turkey is a plague spot … a breeder of wars

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

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

We are the fault line; if you don't deal with this fault line, you're going to have an earthquake, that's what we always said.

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other.

Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.

I unsettle all things.

The absence of strife does not necessarily indicate the presence of peace.

If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

Ukraine is a tinderbox, and the fuse is lit. There is no solution through violence in Ukraine.

Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed.

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