Quotes with movements

  • Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
  • Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
  • The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
  • It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
  • All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
  • History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
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  • Adolf Hitler All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Alice Walker All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Nelson Mandela Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Branch Rickey A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
    Source: On War (1832) Ch. 7, as translated by Michael Howard and Peter P
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Bertrand Russell All movements go too far.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bhagat Singh All the political movements of our country that have hitherto played any important role in our modern history had been lacking in the ideal at the achievement of which they aimed. Revolutionary movement is no exception.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Anita Roddick All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Angela Davis And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Bob Harper CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you have to have a certified coach to take you through this - or any type of physical activity.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Peter Nivio Zarlenga Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.
    Peter Nivio Zarlenga
    American businessman, founder of Blockbuster Videos
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  • Joseph Joubert Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Walter Bagehot History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Alban Berg I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.
    Alban Berg
    Austrian composer (1885 - 1935)
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  • Maria Montessori If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Aaron C. Brown If you want to understand financial markets, and their effects on the economy, you have to understand the trading game. Many short-term price movements are neither random nor caused by economic fundamentals. They're caused by investors buying and selling.
    Source: The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 1
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Joseph De Maistre In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Robert M. Lindner It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
    Robert M. Lindner
    American author and psychologist (1914 - 1956)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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