Agitation Quotes

• I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Stomach
  • Fellows
  • Agitate

• Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Freedom
  • Evil
  • Agitation

• It keeps agitating and worrying us there, ... They're trying to get it to calm down.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Trying
  • Problem
  • Calm

• 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
  • Human
  • Beings
  • Desperation

• 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
  • Liberty
  • Complaining
  • Agitation

• 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 Ling
  • Body
  • Crocodile
  • Reservoirs

• There was an agitation against Mumbai Express: because part of it is an English word. There is no Tamil word for Mumbai Express. I am sure all those who were against it, even they wouldn't say 'I love you' to their lovers in Tamil. Many don't even thank in Tamil.

  

  Kamal Haasan
  • English
  • Love You
  • English Words

• There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Youth
  • Grievance
  • Agitation

• The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.

  

  William Falconer
  • Anxiety
  • Simplicity
  • Casual

• Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Moment
  • Fresh
  • Agitation

• 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
  • Time
  • Spirits
  • Agitation

• I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country.

  

  Muhammadu Buhari
  • Country
  • Commitment
  • Movement

• 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
  • Civilization
  • Satisfied
  • Fellows

• I was in a state of gnawing, sensuous agitation that excited continually both blood and nerves when I sketched out the music for 'Tannhauser' and brought it to completion.

  

  Richard Wagner
  • State
  • Completion
  • Gnawing

• We've got to keep fighting. Got to keep agitating. Got to keep making sure that we put pressure on the people who make the laws, and the decisions, in this country.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Fighting
  • Pressure
  • Decisions

• But not even then did I lose my composure. I continued to proceed with circumspection, as I always had before the accidents of life. The only external sign of my agitation was an inclination to disorder and a weakness in my fingers, and, the more the anguish increased, the harder they found it to close solidly around things.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Lose
  • Weakness
  • Accidents

• We must recognize the eloquence of our passions and refuse to be taken in. Instead of saying, 'That false friend always did despise me,' say: 'In my present state of agitation, I can't see clearly, I can't judge clearly; I am only a tragic actor who is declaiming for his own ears.' Then you will see the lights in the theater go out for lack of an audience, and the brilliant sets will be nothing more than painted cardboard.

  

  Emile Chartier
  • Judge
  • Audience
  • Actor

• Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Progress
  • Born
  • Agitation

• Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also found, unfurling its class-struggle banner and proclaiming its mission of emancipation.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Tears
  • Capitalism
  • Socialism