Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about…

Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very important social…

— Howard Zinn

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and…

— Jairam Ramesh

Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more…

— Pema Chodron

Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be…

— Eugene V. Debs

It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be…

— Octavio Paz

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

— George Edward Woodberry

“Mirabeau: “If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our…

— Hilary Mantel

The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges…

— Booker T. Washington

We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally;…

— Mother Teresa

“If lies comfort, and truth disturbs - self is being agitated as a result of prideful living.”

— T.F. Hodge

“It is unworthy of great spirits to spread abroad the agitation they feel”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to…

— Florence Kelley

...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…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

— Crystal Eastman

The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

— Tom Robbins