Best 1340 quotes in «movement quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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 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 only dislocated minds whose movements are spasmodic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I want to be clear. Who knows if [ Donald Trump] will be a vessel that people will get behind, it might not be, but there is a movement out there.

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

I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.

I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement.

I wanted to see how fast you can go before it becomes nonsensical, a mess.

I want to remind the viewers that people like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement which is actually full of anarchists.

It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms.

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 wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

I've always said, "I love the women's movement, especially when walking behind it." And I have never understood why it is that people - you know, I hate liberalism. I'm totally opposed to liberalism. I do not like that at all.

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

I was a dancer before I was an actress, so I've always been someone who likes to communicate from my body and movement.

I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.