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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains. -- Wendell Phillips
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws. -- Robert Peel
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 is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth. -- George Edward Woodberry
Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains. -- Wendell Phillips
Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America. -- Johann Most
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. -- David Hume
Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses. -- Karl Radek
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. -- Frederick Douglass
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. -- Lord Byron
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
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. -- Karl Radek
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. -- Alfred Adler
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. -- Johann Most
Agitation gives birth to creation. -- Terry Tempest Williams
Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation. -- Eugene V. Debs
Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose. -- Jairam Ramesh
I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach. -- William Cobbett
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. -- Anne Sullivan Macy
Howard Dean announced today he will campaign in seven states. The states are Rage, Frenzy, Fury, Rath, Fever, Agitation, and Delirium. Yeeeeaaaah! -- Jay Leno
Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence. -- Hans Koning
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. -- Martin Luther
Our history in this country dates from the moment that restless men among us became restless under oppression and rose against it . . . Agitation, contentions, ceaseless unrest, constant aspiring -- a race so moved must prevail. -- Timothy Thomas Fortune
To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders. -- Victor Hugo
Mind without agitation is meditation. Mind in the present moment is meditation. Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation. Mind that has come back home, to the source, is meditation. Mind that becomes no mind is meditation. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body. -- Samuel Johnson
If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation. -- Eugene V. Debs
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and smile. -- Edward Hoagland
Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been raining down by the hundreds of years annually - as in terms of the manifold personal sacrifices sustained by those who commit themselves to revolutionary agitation. -- Peter Kropotkin
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. -- Michael Korda
I don't want to be agitated so much on television. I don't need to watch any more agitation. -- Andie MacDowell
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. -- Frederick Douglass
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. -- Anne Sullivan Macy
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. -- Alfred Adler
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. -- Florence Kelley
There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult, and mistakes are common. Misdiagnosis can be lethal. Medications that work well for some forms of depression induce agitation in others. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
There is a particular whir of agitation about female hunger, a low-level thrumming of shoulds and shouldn'ts and can'ts and wants that can be so chronic and familiar it becomes a kind of feminine Muzak, easy to dismiss, or to tune out altogether, even if you're actively participating in it. -- Caroline Knapp
Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation. -- Ravi Ravindra
Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit. -- Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file. -- Wendell Phillips
When you meet your 'soul mate' you'll feel calm. No anxiety, No agitation. -- Monica Drake
Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation? -- StanisÅ?aw I LeszczyÅ?ski
I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error. -- James A. Garfield
The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm. -- Yevgeny Baratynsky
The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness. -- Nigel Calder
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness. -- Jane Austen
The party in Alobar's head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. -- Tom Robbins
Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty. -- Francois Mauriac
This man was no servant. She looked up at him in acute agitation and knew: this man was now her master. -- V.S. Carnes
Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind. -- B. Alan Wallace
Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones. -- Karl Marx
Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism. -- Werner Herzog
Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more clearly. -- Pema Chodron
The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace. -- Wendell Phillips
People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt. -- Michel de Montaigne
If an individual has a calm state of mind, that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil even in the presence of great agitation. -- Dalai Lama
Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation. -- Jane Austen
The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action. -- Graham Greene
This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense. -- Marcus Aurelius
Wind is the heart of the wave, the spoon of the sea and the angry bull of the ships. Without wind, there is no ardour, no agitation! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian -- David Hume
We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind. -- Dalai Lama
Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such. -- Charles Dickens
Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies -- the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
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
On re-entering cultivated lands, the agitation, perplexity, and turmoil of civilization oppressed and suffocated us; the air seemed to fail us, and we felt every moment as if about to die of asphyxia. -- Évariste Régis Huc
The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that's not the one. When you meet your "?soulmate' you'll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation. -- Monica Drake
He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery. -- Lisa Lang
He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery. -- Lisa Lang

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