Movement Quotes & Sayings

Movement Quotes & Sayings

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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. - Theodore Roosevelt



How shoulds't, O heart, which art 'but' one of these hundred thousand particulars, not be in restless movement at His decree? Be at the disposal of the Prince, like a horse [or mule], now confined in the stable, now going on the road. - Jalal-Uddin Rumi



The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents. - Orson Welles



The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk. - Mark Twain



Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. - Saul Alinsky



There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. - Carl Gustav Jung



The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the single-handed defiance of the world. - Eric Hoffer



The government has interpreted the peacefulness of the movement as a weakness: the people's non-violent policies have been taken as a green light for government violence. Refusal to resort to force has been interpreted by the government as an invitation to use armed force against the people without any fear of reprisals. - Nelson Mandela



What has the women's movement learned from [Geraldine Ferraro's] candidacy for vice president? Never get married. - Gloria Steinem