Definition of Agitation

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Agitation

The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.

A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation; as, to cause any one agitation.

Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation.

Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate.

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Agitation Quotations

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

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Frederick Douglass

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

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

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
David Hume

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
Michael Korda

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
Wendell Phillips

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

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

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
Anne Sullivan Macy

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