Movement Quotes

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. (Blaise Pascal)
Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party. View quote
Franz von Papen
In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people. View quote
Marcel Marceau
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
Never confuse movement with action. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
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. View quote
Saul Alinsky
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. View quote
Margaret Fuller
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish. View quote
Samuel Gompers
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors. View quote
Robert Delaunay
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality. (George William Russell)
Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. View quote
Julia Cameron
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. View quote
Joseph Conrad
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. View quote
Milan Kundera
On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. View quote
Ellen Glasgow
The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry. View quote
Francis Crick
Our nature consists in movement absolute rest is death. View quote
Blaise Pascal
I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies. View quote
Paul Krugman
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains blends yearning and repulsion and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. (George Eliot)
I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me. View quote
Beatrice Arthur
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. View quote
Felix Adler
What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'. View quote
Joan Miró
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. View quote
Adam Ferguson