The Movement Quotes

Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence.

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

Movement is the only way you can effect the world around you . . .

God means movement, and not explanation.

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.

Everything that is full of life loves change, for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures

The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.

There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

there is nothing more American than the trade-union movement.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of '63. In many ways, I think it was the high-water mark of the civil rights movement.

I'm very close to the pro-life movement.

The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket."

The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

Seeing is in itself a movement.

People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.

What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.

...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out

People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.

Every little movement has a meaning of its own.

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.

We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.

I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.

The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.

Getting old is not a matter of age; it's a lack of #‎ movement . And the ultimate lack of movement is death.

Keep your soul at peace, in order to be able to be attentive and very faithful to the inner movement of the Holy Spirit.

The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another.

The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

Movement for me is meditation.

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.

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

The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement

The feminist movement has far more anger for men than it has love for women.

We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.

I think you can say a lot with the movement of your camera but you can also say a lot by keeping it still.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

The most important thing... was to change their spirit; and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means to this end, I decided to promote literary movement.

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.