Movement Quotes
2728 Movement quotes by 1884 unique authors
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We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements…
— Anna Godbersen
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It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead to the destruction…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived…
— John McPhee
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I'll do a deal with you McFarlane," he said. "You can exist. And you can even have coffee. But if you raise your voice or…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and…
— James Joyce
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A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the…
— Coco Chanel
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Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.
— Dwight L. Moody
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The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first,…
— Malcolm X
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Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated…
— Bell Hooks
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For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Every movement reveals us.
— Michel de Montaigne
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It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of…
— Bell Hooks
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I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in something or I…
— Patti Smith
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She was aware of the movement of his lips as he pressed soundless words in her palm. He released her, and the look he gave…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family…
— Bell Hooks
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That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who…
— Gilles Deleuze
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The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the…
— Bell Hooks
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Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their public trust to…
— Mark Levin
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I am not too happy with terms like “the left”, to be honest. And I don’t use it much….if by “the left” you mean people…
— Noam Chomsky
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I don’t understand all the nuances of the women’s movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge the dominant paradigm,…
— Winona LaDuke
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It sort of floated toward me,” said Ron, illustrating the movement with his free index finger, “right to my chest, and then — it just…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has…
— Albert Einstein
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The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the…
— George Eliot
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