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108 Agitation quotes by 88 unique authors

The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse… — Charles Krauthammer
Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones. — Karl Marx
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. — Frederick Douglass
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. — David Hume
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful… — Martin Luther
Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America. — Johann Most
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without… — Frederick Douglass
The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection… — John Ralston Saul
A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their… — Lorraine Hansberry
She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart… — Henry James
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. — Tom Robbins
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness. — Jane Austen
Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same… — Jane Austen
We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to… — Mother Teresa
The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which… — Lord Byron
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to… — David Hume
I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak… — Osamu Dazai
Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted to change myself… — Gretchen Rubin
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder… — Michel de Montaigne
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that… — Booker T. Washington
I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. "We have spread… — Dan Simmons
Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm. — Unknown Author
There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult, and mistakes are… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. — Frederick Douglass

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