Confession Concerning Christ's Supper, Part 3. Robert E. Smith, tr.<cite>Dr. Martin Luthers Werke: Kritische Gesamtsusgabe</cite>. (Weimar: Herman Boehlaus Nachfolger, 1909), pp.499-500. http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/luther-quoting.txt
Context: By God's grace, I know Satan very well. If Satan can turn God's Word upside down and pervert the Scriptures, what will he do with my words -- or the words of others?
“If you sleep upside down, do you dream upside down?”
"Rooster Teeth Video Podcast #225" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHTnytDN8Us. youtube.com. July 9, 2013. Retrieved May 4, 2014.
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“Lift the world up by your levity,
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.”
"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.
“It is the nature of conquest to turn everything upside down.”
Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
“We are the people who turned the world upside down.”
Attributed to Lee in "Harpy Hall of Fame: Mother Ann Lee (1736-1784)" at The Pursuit of Harpyness (4 February 2009) http://www.harpyness.com/2009/02/04/harpy-hall-of-fame-mother-ann-lee-1736-1784/; no earlier attributions have as yet been located.
Disputed
Diogenes, 6.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 6: The Cynics
“Like a fool, I fell in love with you,
Turned my whole world upside down”
