Agitation Quote by Robert Peel Download Open image “Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.” — Robert Peel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Agitation Conscience Ethics Law Mold
Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law. Detestation… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth. — George Edward Woodberry 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 it, it… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Peaceful civil disobedience to unjust laws, which I support with every fiber of my being, can sometimes be necessary at any level of government.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To commit violent and unjust acts, it is not enough for a government to have the will or even the power; the habits, ideas… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands. — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
“We are so little affected by things which are habitual, that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority as if it… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence… — Emma Goldman 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; we are… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
If the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merely, a careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper, combining, with… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
I shall leave a name execrated by every monopolist...but it may be...sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in the abodes of those whose lot… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. — Tom Robbins 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 fundamentally right. — Crystal Eastman 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; we are… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It is unworthy of great spirits to spread abroad the agitation they feel” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If lies comfort, and truth disturbs - self is being agitated as a result of prideful living.” — T.F. Hodge 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 as personally;… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
