Agitation Quotes
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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. (Quote by - Robert M. Hutchins)
This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation. (Quote by - Florence Kelley)
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth. (Quote by - George E. Woodberry)
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When we wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
He's an agitator and if you let him get to you then he's effective. But we've got agitators too, we just didn't happen to have our agitators going that night I guess. (Quote by - Terry Sanderson)
She (the caller) indicated that he was wearing gloves, that he was very agitated, that he had indicated that he was going to kill someone. She even said that he had put a plastic bag- type over his clothes that he called his 'killing suit' so he wouldn't get blood on his clothes when he was involved in any altercation. (Quote by - Darrell DeBusk)
There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator. (Quote by - William Orville Douglas)
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base. (Quote by - Charlie Cook)
A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. (Quote by - Seneca)
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. (Quote by - Crystal Eastman)
Miller said the article appeared to have agitated Mr. Libby, .. clandestine guy. (Quote by - Joe Wilson)
Normally, activities like that are not something that would be enough to agitate a nest. (Quote by - Valerie Fellows)
His accent started to falter, and he became agitated. (Quote by - Karlee Weinmann)
Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death. (Quote by - Ernestine L. Rose)
Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration which have been raining down by the hundreds of years annually, as in terms of the manifold personal sacrifices sustained by. (Quote by - Peter Kropotkin)
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?(Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
He was very agitated about Waco, couldn't believe that it was happening. Basically that this could be the start of the government coming house to house to retrieve the weapons from the citizens. (Quote by - Gregory Pfaff)
Just like humans, if you agitate (the cows) a little, excite them, the calves drop like son of a guns. (Quote by - James Settelmeyer)
Agitators on the bottom came in around 1920. (Quote by - Joseph Shapiro)
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)
Such is the constitution of man that labor may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America. (Quote by - Johann Most)
In terms of his importance to the (extremist) cause..he was a facilitator and agitator. (Quote by - Bob Ayers)
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts. (Quote by - François de la Rochefoucauld)
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws. (Quote by - Robert Peel)
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation. (Quote by - Eugene Debs)
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. (Quote by - David Hume)
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation. (Quote by - Abigail Adams)
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. (Quote by - Michael Korda)
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. (Quote by - Bernadette Devlin)
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. (Quote by - Tenzin Gyatso)
The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. (Quote by - Alfred Adler)
The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)
If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation. (Quote by - Johann Most)
Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses. (Quote by - Karl Radek)
This guy, all he does is come here and agitate. (Quote by - Ned Treptow)
We're taking everything in the homes, all the furniture that looks like it's been agitated in a washing machine in a muddy washing machine and dropped back down in their house. (Quote by - Ave Bauder)
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
He was agitated during the flight, but complied with the flight attendants. (Quote by - Christopher White)
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
It's rough and nasty out there. The ocean is like a washing machine on the agitation cycle. (Quote by - Scott Petersohn)
Whatever little we have gained, we have gained by agitation, while we have uniformly lost by moderation. (Quote by - Daniel O'Connell)
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Now, my lips are sewn with thread so thin postpoems.com. (Quote by - Lauren G)
The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only. (Quote by - Marquis De Sade)
Filipinos are tired of political bickering and confrontation, that is why despite the relentless agitation by the opposition, there is no upheaval against the President or the government. (Quote by - Gabriel Claudio)
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. (Quote by - Anne Sullivan Macy)
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. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. (Quote by - Alfred Adler)
It's reckless reporting. Everybody should be agitated about it. (Quote by - Scott McClellan)
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. (Quote by - Barbara Ehrenreich)
I remember quite distinctly her coming to me quite agitated, emotionally distressed, and at that point confided to me that she had indeed been beaten by her husband and that she had decided to leave the marriage. (Quote by - John Rother)
The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating. (Quote by - Cesar Chavez)
He was very agitated and very upset. He'd been in the military for about 20 years. He asked to speak to a chaplain. (Quote by - Carolyn Blashek)
The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions. (Quote by - Karl Radek)
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach. (Quote by - William Cobbett)
In part, we were so agitated it served as a great motivator, and we played with a chip on our shoulder. (Quote by - Mark Few)
It's an incredibly emotive issue. This is something that really upset Afghans. But it is also being used to agitate and motivate the crowds by those against the government and foreign forces being here. (Quote by - Joanna Nathan)
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile. (Quote by - Edward Hoagland)
This apparently agitated him to the point where he squeezed off a couple of rounds. (Quote by - Jim Solomons)
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change. (Quote by - Audre Lorde)
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. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
