“Women's actions have never been more than symbolic agitation; they have one only what men have been willing to concede to them;… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated you will find agitation… — H. W. L. Poonja Copy Share Image
We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
To overcome negative emotions, consulting intuition is always useful. How can it guide you. During nervous periods, it offers a more centered… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Self-criticism is not "love," and it is certainly not indifferent. It's a form of hatred. And when I name that, when I… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If an individual has a calm state of mind, that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil even in the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Let you alone! That’s all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Howard Dean announced today he will campaign in seven states. The states are Rage, Frenzy, Fury, Rath, Fever, Agitation, and Delirium. Yeeeeaaaah! — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be… — Johann Most Copy Share Image
The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers;… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of all of us to remind governments of their commitments to settle disputes by peaceful means and to… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
The socialist parties of all countries are duty bound to fight energetically for the implementation of universal women's suffrage which is to… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
I realized that most white Americans knew very little about our history and our struggle, and were having difficulty understanding the basis… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
You say you are not happy in the Mission. That, in itself, is not a sign that God does not want you… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Someone once told me not to be afraid of being afraid, because, as she said, 'Anxiety is a glimpse of your own… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is… — John Brown Baldwin Copy Share Image
The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Without sattva you can never reach the Supreme. Wherever you are, in whatever station, from there you have to reach sattva in… — Chinmayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
Looking back on 200 years of feminist agitation in this country, we've got to get it that the moral high ground doesn't… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
