Best Agitation Quotes
108 Agitation quotes by 88 unique authors
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Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
— Wendell Phillips
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The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of…
— Isham G. Harris
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But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is any other cause…
— John Brown Baldwin
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Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been raining down by…
— Peter Kropotkin
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Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire…
— Ramana Maharshi
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The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered…
— Wendell Phillips
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
— Wendell Phillips
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I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public lands among the…
— Sam Houston
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Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
— Robert Peel
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The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one. When you meet…
— Monica Drake
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The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.
— Nigel Calder
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a…
— Ajahn Chah
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As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The socialist parties of all countries are duty bound to fight energetically for the implementation of universal women's suffrage which is to be vigorously advocated…
— Clara Zetkin
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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…
— Karl Radek
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Someone once told me not to be afraid of being afraid, because, as she said, 'Anxiety is a glimpse of your own daring.' Isn't that…
— Maria Shriver
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Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.
— Ernestine Rose
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Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation.
— Ravi Ravindra
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Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child…
— Gore Vidal
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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
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He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts…
— Ivan Turgenev
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Whenever you are angry or afraid, nervous or worried or resentful, repeat the mantram until the agitation subsides. The mantram works to steady the mind,…
— Eknath Easwaran
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Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names.…
— Edmund Burke
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