Movement Quotes · Page 29

We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.

— Cesar Chavez

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

— Nat Hentoff

The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.

— Norman Mailer

Pain creates movement, and movement controls balance. If the opponent does not feel any pain you may be forced to break bones.

— Ed Martin

O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.

— Thomas Chalmers

I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.

— Amber Hollibaugh

When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.

— Ryan Lewis

True, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

— Emma Goldman

The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing…

— Joe Strummer

The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement…

— Michael Steele

The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked…

— Friedrich Engels

What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if…

— Tim DeChristopher

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Look, "Gender trouble" includes a critique of the idea that there are two ideal bodily forms, two ideal morphologies: the masculine and…

— Judith Butler

I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women…

— Jack Nicholson

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is…

— Henry Louis Gates

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control…

— Jim Hightower

I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or…

— Lafcadio Hearn

The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture: there is…

— Emile Argand

In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of…

— Karl Marx

There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what…

— Anonymous

It is not enough to call yourself a feminist because you are a strong woman. Thatcher was an enemy to feminism, as…

— Julie Bindel

Before the change of regime in 1989, you couldn't talk about anti-Semitism, and after the regime change, people started to talk about…

— Csanad Szegedi

You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

— Al Franken

Beto O'Rourke speaks in annoyingly pert platitudes like some mediocre yoga instructor who promises to 'build a movement.'

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

I shared this idea that fashion starts with a movement, an allure: elusive, defined through perfect proportions.

— Hedi Slimane

I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.

— Richard Dawkins

One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.

— Cara Black

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

— Morarji Desai

So it would be a happy marriage between the movement and the vocal and uh, this is the thing that you give…

— Cholly Atkins

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

— Muhammad Iqbal

I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the…

— Peter Garrett

Constant rhythmical movement is necessary to health and harmony. Much ill health is due to emotional congestion.

— Emmet Fox

I'm very concerned about the whole LGBTQ movement and the way it sexualizes children.

— Angela Stanton-King

I really wanted to be a part of that movement or better yet create that movement.

— Kofi Siriboe

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

— Frank Gehry

For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.

— Haile Gerima

We're all put here for a reason. And one little movement changes your way of life.

— Tommy Lasorda

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

— Don Roff