Joseph M. Keegin Quotes

I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.

Unrest is the mark of existence.

He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.

Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.

If you're also in the arena and you're putting your ideas out and you're owning them and you're saying "I disagree with you about this and that, I think you've got this wrong" - then not only do I invite that, I freaking love that. I love that. I'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate.

We must muster the courage, we must find the will, we must do what is necessary to build a truly transformative movement that will end the history and cycle of caste in America.

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them, you will suit each other very well.

Stability is not immobility.

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.

Without honoring Whores, we cannot truly understand and transcend the dynamics of violence, destruction and ignorance fostered in our cuntfearing society.

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.

The universe really is motion & nothing else.

Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply "blah, blah, blah, " and practice, pure activism.

Be a river - not a reservoir.

I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.

The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.