Agitation Quotes

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilisation and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.

Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

There was an agitation against Mumbai Express: because part of it is an English word. There is no Tamil word for Mumbai Express. I am sure all those who were against it, even they wouldn't say 'I love you' to their lovers in Tamil. Many don't even thank in Tamil.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

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 nature (i.e., oppressed) forever in ferment and agitation against their condition and what they understand to be their oppressors. If not by overt rebellion or revolution, then in the thousand and one ways they will devise with and without consciousness to alter their condition

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

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 and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric.

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

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 and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.

The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And the struggle against these elements cannot be waged with propaganda and agitation alone. ... The struggle must also be waged by applying force and compulsion.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.

There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator.

Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.