Agitation Quotes

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.

Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.