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"I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change-within himself, not on the outside." »Joseph Brodsky
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"The credit Union movement..It is a great movement, worthy of great deeds, deserving of great loyalty." » Edward Filene, founded the first credit union in the U.S.
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"A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid." »Jack Benny
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"Never confuse movement with action." »Ernest Hemingway
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"A Libertarian movement slogan" »Robert A. Heinlein
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"Education is the movement from darkness to light." »Allan Bloom
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"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word." »Mata Hari
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"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor." »Arnold Toynbee
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"Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary." »Marshal Tito
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"There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion." »Carl Jung
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"Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement." »Thomas Wolfe
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"O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue O, farewell Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell Othello's occupation's gone" »William Shakespeare
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"“Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has inspired the movement of change."" »Steve Maraboli
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"The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency." »Margaret Fuller
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"The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth." »Rabindranath Tagore
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"The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life." »Albert Pike
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"The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards." »Jonathan Berry
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"When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension." »Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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"Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies." »Howard Thurman
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"[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!" »Theodor Herzl
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"The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels" »Theodor Herzl
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"It is about 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, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
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"Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need." »Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
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"Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation." »Lewis S Feuer
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"If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based." »Betty Naomi Friedan
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"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." »Felix Adler
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"If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement." »Antonio Gramsci
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"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both." »Eric Hoffer
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"Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life." »M. R. Vincent
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