Quotes About Agitation

Lenin rejected the idea of confining the revolutionary political struggle to a small group's conspiracy to seize power. The battle against absolutism should consist, he said, not in hatching plots but in training, disciplining, and organizing the workers, in propaganda and agitation among them.

Inflaming Individuals There are people in the world who by their nature tend to trigger powerful emotions in almost everyone they encounter.

Quite often, when a woman was agitated, she tried to soothe others whether they required soothing or not.

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.

Detering walks about cursing. 'What have they done to deserve that, that's what I want to know?' And later on he comes back to it again. His voice is agitated and he sounds as if he is making a speech when he says, 'I tell you this: it is the most despicable thing of all to drag animals into a war.

As labor strife increased and the economy faltered, the general level of violence rose.

That's the way our friends the anarchists talk. Whenever things get really bad they want to set fire to something and to die.

Print, it transpired, was not just an instrument of agitation and change: now it was equally necessary to win the peace.

He was so restless and he had so much energy, but it was destructive. Like it wasn't the sort of energy that got walls painted or the house cleaned. He just prowled like a lion in a cage.

understanding they in their turn have played on them. Our soul sometimes takes its own revenge: <> What we see and hear when agitated by anger we do not see as it is:

Una parte de mí vela en la desesperación; y simultáneamente otra se agita mentalmente arreglando mis asuntos más futiles. Resiento esto como una enfermedad.

Even as a young man, Rockefeller was extremely composed in a crisis. In this respect, he was a natural leader: The more agitated others became, the calmer he grew.

He fretted endlessly about his company and, below the surface, was constantly on edge.

all talking in a tense and agitated fashion, like a scene in a movie where folks find out the mining company has poisoned their water.

Emma awakened Steven rudely by arching her back and letting out a howl of startled discomfort. He sat bolt upright in bed, shoved one hand through his hair in agitation, and babbled that he was willing to pay five thousand dollars for the piece of land he wanted, and not a cent more. In spite of her pain, Emma laughed at his incoherency. "I'm in labor, Mr. Fairfax," she told him, as her stomach contorted visibly beneath her nightgown and her face twisted in a grimace.

As one becomes increasingly unsteady (restless), one increases entanglements.

Agitaion over happenings which we are powerless to modify, either because they have not occured, or else are occuring at an inaccesible distance from us, achieves nothing beyond the onoculation of here and now with the remote or anticipated evil that is the object of our distress.

He was trembling with anger; at least one forgot unhappiness while one was angry.

In spite of the conflicts in the radical movement much was gained by this constant agitation. Evictions were halted, relief came, playgrounds were built, slum houses were torn down, and conditions have somewhat improved.

Be educated, be organized and be agitated.

I'm a little angry in life.

Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.

All night he either traversed his apartment with an agitation equal to that, which anxiety had so lately inflicted, or composed and destroyed letters to Ellena; sometimes fearing that he had written too much, and at others feeling that he had written too little; recollecting circumstances which he ought to have mentioned, and lamenting the cold expression of a passion, to which it appeared that no language could do justice.

She immediately withdrew from the casement, and, though much agitated, sought in sleep the refreshment of a short oblivion.