Agitation Quote by Crystal Eastman

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

— Crystal Eastman

“the only viable response to religious hostility is love, empathy, compassion, understanding—not more hostility. (What could be more pathetic than a hostile fight against…

— Brian D. McLaren

The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or…

— H. L. Mencken

The result can be quite new - perhaps a tendency to judge that something we've never conceived of is possible, or to feel sympathy…

— Philip Kitcher

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

— Robert Menzies

To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

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

— Tom Robbins