The Movement Quotes

An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.

Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.

We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is for us is largely out of mind.

Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that the main purpose of public education is closing achievement gaps.

Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15.

I had never really done voice-over. If you've ever seen me, I'm more the communicator through body language and movement I'm a physical actor.

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

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.

I'm just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can effect change.

The Olympic movement simply cannot allow the Russians to become estranged, because Russia is a vital part of the world sports community, in the sense of having nuclear missiles.

My voice and movements are restricted by the things I own.

America has an important role to play as the world leader in creating a global order, free trade, free waterways, free commerce, free movement of people. That happens because of U.S. military might.

All of the [Bob] Fosse-esque movements and point of view informed years and years of what I would do.

...Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'.

I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach.

There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer.

If I wanted to contribute to the hyphy movement, what good is it making a hyphy record that isn't embraced by that community?

Evil is movement towards void.

The whole journey of style-driven subcultural movements is finished now in the UK. The internet kind of killed it.

This is a movement like nobody's ever seen in this country before. Even our enemies admit that. We're going to make history together.

I take [all slings and arrows] for our movement so that we can have our country back.

[Me attacked by media] is nothing more than an attempt to destroy our movement and for the Clintons to keep their corrupt control over our government.

I'm doing this [running for presidency] for the people and for the movement, and we will take back this country for you and we will make America great again.

You can't have problems with hand movement, if you're going to be a good putter.

The corrupt media is trying to do everything in their power to stop our movement.

Hopefully our great movement powered by everyday citizens will overcome the sickness that is plaguing our politics and our media.

We recognize and respect the right of either country to build a physical barrier or wall on any of its borders to stop the illegal movement of people, drugs, and weapons.

Such a movement would cause the ACLU to go bananas!

I know people have embraced Donald Trump. He may not have embraced them. But he has every - he should distance himself. This sort of alt-right movement is very disturbing.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious.

I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States. People are brought together in other ways that can become drivers of change.

I love to sing some Beyonce - ya know, like 'All the Single Ladies.' I'll sing that - maybe not with the body shakin' - but I'll have a little bit of the hand movement going on.

You can't tell the story of the women's movement through the story of one woman.

Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.

Pain creates movement, and movement controls balance. If the opponent does not feel any pain you may be forced to break bones.

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

Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.

Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.

Movement always helps. A world of thoughts occurred to her whenever she rode a train, and a lesser world whenever she went for a walk.

I think diversity of thinking and healing traditions from around the world are good for us. The movement itself has evolved enormously and it's been a thrill to be part of it.

I realized that there wasn't accessible, user-friendly content out there that really empowered people to find a way into the green movement.

People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.

Life for me is about movement.

I don't do any vulgar movements.

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

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.