(31 quotes found)
“The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.”
Marquis De Sade
“What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'”
David Hume
“Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration which have been raining down by the hundreds of years annually, as in terms of the manifold personal sacrifices sustained by”
Peter Kropotkin
“Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains”
Wendell Phillips
“I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.”
William Cobbett
“Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.”
Crystal Eastman
“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
“He's an agitator and if you let him get to you then he's effective. But we've got agitators too, we just didn't happen to have our agitators going that night I guess.”
Terry Sanderson
“He was agitated during the flight, but complied with the flight attendants.”
Christopher White
“In terms of his importance to the (extremist) cause...he was a facilitator and agitator.”
Bob Ayers
