Quotes by Agitation POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. Ambrose Bierce agitation eels mistake Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only. Amos Bronson Alcott empty-vessels agitation answers Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. Anne Sullivan Macy agitation eye stupid The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base. Charlie Cook agitation risk talking Without sattva you can never reach the Supreme. Chinmayananda Saraswati agitation degrees mind Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. Crystal Eastman agitation indifference fighting What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. David Hume agitation philosophical brain The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power. Edmund Burke agitation names exercise Whenever you are angry or afraid, nervous or worried or resentful, repeat the mantram until the agitation subsides. The mantram works to steady the mind, and all these emotions are power running against you, which the mantram can harness and put to work for you. Eknath Easwaran agitation mind running Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death. Ernestine Rose agitation atheism opposites Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation. Eugene V. Debs agitation progress born 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. Frances Power Cobbe agitation responsibility giving Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty. Francois Mauriac agitation soul doubt The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts. Francois de La Rochefoucauld agitation wisdom art The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily. Francois de La Rochefoucauld agitation doe littles It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, it is the agitation of all menthat alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms. Georges Bataille agitation police needs 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. Germaine Greer agitation women mistake Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence. Hans Koning agitation humanity commitment Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very important social function because music can do things that mere prose, mere ordinary political agitation can't do. Howard Zinn agitation political important Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose. Jairam Ramesh agitation prose government 123»