Agitation Quotes
Agitation Quote of the day
We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.
...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.
Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.
The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian
The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base.
The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.
The mob is easily led and may be moved by the smallest force, so that its agitations have a wonderful resemblance to those of the sea.
This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.
The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.
The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.
The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.
Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.
Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.
The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.
Agitation gives birth to creation.
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.
People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
If an individual has a calm state of mind, that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil even in the presence of great agitation.
Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.
Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.
Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.
Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.
Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more clearly.
Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation?
Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.
Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies -- the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.
As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.
Wind is the heart of the wave, the spoon of the sea and the angry bull of the ships. Without wind, there is no ardour, no agitation!
