Agitation Quotes

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.