Movement Quotes - Page 27

You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move.

When I want to be bold about my movement ... I for sure do not call it exercise!

The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

I have always been inspired by the American peace movement because it is operating in a very hard and militarist environment.

Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.

It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history.

The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.

Dance is movement, and movement is life.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

There is no movement without our own resistance.

Music loud, I can't help but wiggle a bit and I think that movement finds its way into the paintings... I can see it in the strokes.

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

The American creationist movement has entirely bypassed the scientific forum and has concentrated instead on political lobbying and on taking its case to a fair-minded electorate... The reason for this strategy is overwhelmingly apparent: no scientific case can be made for the theories they advance.

Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

What is the future of the woman's movement How in the hell do I know I don't run it.

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves.

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.

Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.

Words often spoil a moment of judgment or excitement; in all great puzzles and wars and movements, there is a moment to speak and a moment to accept with silent dignity.