Best 1340 quotes in «movement quotes» category

I take [all slings and arrows] for our movement so that we can have our country back.

It became a lucrative misconception, that movement in any direction is progression

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.

It doesn't matter who you are. Everyone has something to offer the movement of justice

I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students.

I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.

I think, if anything, my children are the ones who have sacrificed because I've had to too many times be absent from them. But, at the same time, they have lived very enriched lives and probably experienced things they wouldn't have if not for the movements. So, there are some rewards.

I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.

I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it's hard to talk of it as a single entity.

I think probably underneath it all, film [Kino] has its own rhythm and its own dynamic, and we were trying to capture the movement of film and cross-reference it with music.

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.

I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.

I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.

I think what drives me is a sense of, well, who is going to do it if you don't do it? I think that one of the things that we've seen over time, especially with progressive social movements, is most of them - it's surprising to people - are sort of driven by that.

I think we should start a movement, and everyone should just start wearing metal pants to the airport.

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.

It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

It is ironic that a movement that made its reputation championing the irrelevance of biological differences when those differences were to most women's disadvantage immediately returned to biological determinism when those differences were to the most women's advantage.

It is only dislocated minds whose movements are spasmodic.

It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there to which one can relate, an organization- a movement.

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

It is precisely because I believe it is not possible to neatly separate the sexual from other sorts of relations that I find the movement to bar the sexual from pedagogy not only dangerous but supremely impractical.

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.

It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be taking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it.

It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.

It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.

I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant reference point, and against that I oppose the movements of the model's limbs.

It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.

It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.

It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy, in a way.

It's fine with me if people want to applaud between movements of a concerto. It doesn't bother me - it's part of performance experience. Sometimes when they applaud if I'm still playing it's not as good, but there's always a way around it. Actually the applause gives me a little rest and chance to stretch, too.

It's only the last turn of a bolt that tightens it - the rest is just movement.

It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.

It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word.

It's nice to wear a suit once in a while. It can restrict some body movement, but it makes me feel as though I'm part of society. I feel a sense of security because I've conformed to the standards of the rest of the world.

It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

It's tougher for me. But I don't think that's imperative to me starting a new movement, or revive an old movement, to help people.

It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.

It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.