Movement Quotes

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya Angelou

Love, Trust, Women

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Alan Cohen

Life, Change, Power

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
Barack Obama

Work, Family, Health

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson

Women, Children, Political

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato

Music, Education, Soul

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow

Change, Forward, Growth

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Creative, Happens, Cause

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest Hemingway

Writing, May, Enough

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Forward, Talent, Discipline

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Theodore Roosevelt

Reform, Lunatic, Fringe

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Deepak Chopra

Keep, Chaos, Inside

Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway

Action, Confuse

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Karl Marx

Time, Art, Same

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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
John Steinbeck

Time, Long, After

I'm not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.
Billy Graham

Gay, Lesbian, Focused

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Karl Marx

History, May, Cannot

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Ocean, Importance

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
David Cameron

Leadership, Equality, Courage

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.
Jerry Seinfeld

Life, Live, Moving

The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.
Henri Nouwen

Successful, Become, Culture

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
Ben Stein

Pain, Everything, Done

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
Vladimir Lenin

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.
Andy Stern

Best, Government, Job

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
Angela Davis

Work, Yourself, Single

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.
Brandon Boyd

Great, Everything, Give

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

Change, Means, Conflict

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.
Vladimir Lenin

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
Lauryn Hill

Music, Spiritual, Call

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Gossip, Greed, Apathy

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
J. K. Rowling

Writing, Appears, Stimulates

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