Movements Quotes

Ideas can never be defeated by military force. They can only be defeated by better ideas.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. And then you win.

The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.

Communism … is not a stale state …. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.

Anti-monopoly is a movement inspired by a set of fools and black-mailers. To be sure, there are some men in it whose motives are good, if their sense is not. When I want to buy up any politician, I always find the Anti-Monopolists the most purchasable. They don't come so high

A mighty influence is abroad, surging and heaving the world.

If a woman demonstrates that she is fitted to be President, she will one day occupy the White House. It will be entirely on her own merits however. No movement can place her there simply because she is a woman.

We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom." It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?

The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leading them away from their unwanted selves. Surrender to a leader is not a means to an end but a fulfillment. Whither they are led is of secondary importance.

A movement without a vision is a movement without moral foundation.

Every movement takes a century to make its mark. The women’s movement is only 40 some years old.

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

Investors avoid investing in a region where some elements cause political instability by their so-called movements.

In essence, populism is an illiberal democratic response to decades to decades of undemocratic liberal policies.

One should always be vigilant for traces of totalitarianism in any ideology or movement

If we are trying to account for mobilization, we have to ask, under what conditions do outraged forms of knowing lead to social mobilizations and movements? So awareness alone does not suffice, and neither does outrage.

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

The Socialist movement is the abolitionist movement of the 20th century.

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

The conservation movement, the environmental movement as we know it, really needed to adopt some of the tactics that the civil rights movement and the anti-nuclear movement were already using successfully.

In those days…we were all friends – all willing to help one another…We were very radical, however, in our views of right and wrong…. We opposed bad men everywhere, supported all fugitive slaves who came to us, and worked like beavers for the right

Movements aren’t built on leadership but on the movement itself — of individuals taking that first step from inertia to action, as if passing through a doorway

Respect movements, flee schools.