(607 quotes found)
“An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.”
Clara Barton
“I constructed a theoretically perfect thrust, but I eliminated a few intermediate movements so that nobody could execute it. It has the appearance of being perfect”
Arturo Perez Reverte
“U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.”
Christiane Amanpour
“The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.”
Carol Gilligan
“I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.”
Charlotte Whitton
“You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. [explaining his way out of a speeding ticket]”
Oscar Levant
“I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.”
Fidel Castro
“The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.”
Jim Wallis
“Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.”
Arnold Toynbee
“Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them”
George Bernard Shaw
