Movement Quotes - Page 16

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

I began to feel that my greatest sense of success would raise the level of masses of people, rather than the individual being accepted by the Establishment. So, this kind of personal thinking, combined with, say, even the little bit more radical thinking - because at one time the pacifist movement was a very radical concept.

God means movement, and not explanation.

Movement is the only way you can effect the world around you . . .

Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement.

To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.

Getting old is not a matter of age; it's a lack of #‎ movement . And the ultimate lack of movement is death.

What I don't know is whether there is a way politically that you can beat away these, some of these populist movements because in the end I don't think they really do provide answers. They ride the anger. But they don't really have the answers. Or whether this is an experiment we're just going to have to go through first.

What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.

An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement.

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.

If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

We want to make nation-building a people's movement.

The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement

The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.

Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.