Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“Anybody who sets out to turn the world upside down has no right to complain if he gets caught in its gears.”
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Frederik Pohl
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The Space Merchants
Source: The Space Merchants (1953), Chapter 8 (p. 105)
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Sojourner Truth
(1797–1883) African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist
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Eric Clapton
(1945) English musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
“Lift the world up by your levity,
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.”
Sydney Carter
(1915–2004) British musician and poet
"Come, Holy Harlequin" (1974)
Context: Teach the crippled how to leap,
Throw their crutches on a heap,
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.
Rock, love, carry it away,
Lift the world up by your levity,
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.
Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“It is the nature of conquest to turn everything upside down.”
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