The Movement Quotes

You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews.

They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

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

It's not Lyndon Johnson who makes the black freedom movement; it's the black freedom movement who makes Lyndon Johnson.

This 1965. We went to trial on our city. We were obviously borrowing tactics and strategy from the Black freedom movement, and we were echoing their approach to things.

I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do as a conservative politician.

The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.

I was involved in the anti-war movement.

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.

I don't want to start a movement that mirrors religion. I don't want to create the church of the non-believers where I'm the preacher and we're all gathering together and reciting things.

Here, there's more of a movement, it doesn't mean we're winning any more, but we're at least fighting.

We had other currencies that we could find work in - the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.

But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that.

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.

I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again.

Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

Live is best. You have movement, and I think we should do as much as we can to put that sense of movement in the recorded music.

But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.

The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals which won independence.

We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.

We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together.

Remember the movements that don't look like moving.

Van Der Vaart's movement is always on the move

The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.

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

The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.

Every party and every movement tends to need a hero.

The anti-gun-violence movement was essentially asleep from 1994 to 2012, and during that time, the gun lobby built up enormous political power.

I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just to lead better lives but to be better people.

There is a division within the neo-conservative movement, which is, by the way, one of the tests of its authenticity as a tendency. I would say I was a supporter of Paul Wolfowitz.

Mike Pence is the hardest one to guess in 2020 as a leader, because I don't know if he is seen as the heir to the Donald Trump political movement or ig being the heir is a good thing.

Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

If we have to have a real movement on this issue if you support gun control, it has to come from the Republican side.

We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change.

We need a people's movement to end this war, ... We're going to ask them How many more of other people's children are you willing to sacrifice for the lies

I feel as if they are somewhere between movement and stillness, and thus in possession of a certain energy.

People's lives can be transformed by the movement.

I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.

I'm very unphysical and graceless so basically if you save 10 people to be with you in a resistance movement, you would never save me. I'd be the last one.

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.