Movement Quotes - Page 31

• The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition is by no means novel; it has long been one of the commonplaces of popular opinion.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Mean, Class, Long

  Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• In a free system any large, popular, revolutionary movement should be able to bring about its ends by such a voluntary process. As more and more people see how it works more and more will wish to participate in or support it. And so it will grow, without being necessary to force everyone or a majority or anyone into the pattern.

  Robert Nozick

  People, Support, Wish

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we have sustained our forward progress, and we have made our labor movement something to be respected and accorded a place in the councils of the Republic. Where we have blundered into trying to force a policy or decision, even though wise and right, we have impeded if not interrupted the realization of our own aims.

  Samuel Gompers

  Wise, Long, Decision

  Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green (1948). “The American Federationist”

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• I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's like, we reap the benefits of the feminist movement - they did all the legwork and now we're going to try to be parents and successful business people and great wives and good friends and take a cooking class and blah, blah, blah.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Women, Successful, Good Friend

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• One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward.

  Thom Gunn

  Moving, World, Wells

  Thom Gunn (2010). “The Sense of Movement”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Mean, Tolerance, Left

  Herbert Marcuse (2007). “The Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse”, p.50, Beacon Press

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• Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Ideas, Limits, Reason

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.17, Routledge

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• Waiting is directed at nothing: any object that could gratify it would only efface it. Still, it is not confined to one place, it is not a resigned immobility; it has the endurance of a movement that will never end and would never promise itself the reward of rest; it does not wrap itself in interiority; all of it falls irremediably outside.

  Michel Foucault

  Fall, Waiting, Promise

  Michel Foucault (1998). “Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology”, p.167, The New Press

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• A shared choice movement sees the fetus as the genes of a woman and the genes of a man; the flesh of the woman, the flesh of the man; the bone of a woman, the bone of a man; the responsibility of a woman, the responsibility of a man; the rights of a woman, the rights of a man. It desires a transition to equality.

  Warren Farrell

  Responsibility, Men, Rights

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• No movement calls [migrant workers] oppressed for providing money for women from whom they are receiving neither cooking nor cleaning; for providing their wives with homes while they sleep on the ground.

  Warren Farrell

  Home, Sleep, Wife

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Joining a radical movement when one is young is very much like falling in love when one is young. The girl may turn out to be rotten, but the the experience of love is so valuable it can never be entirely undone by the ultimate disenchantment.

  Irving Kristol

  Girl, Falling In Love, Love Is

  Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.470, Simon and Schuster

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• Every youth movement presents itself as a loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.

  Greil Marcus

  Trying, Youth, Loan

  Greil Marcus (2014). “Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• To begin with, I hold that there is never an end; everything of which our life is composed, pictures and books as much as anything else, is a means only, in the sense that the work of art exists in the body of the movement of life. It may be a strong factor of progress and direction, but we cannot say that it is the end or reason of things, for it is so much implicated with them ; and when we are speaking of art we suddenly find that we are talking of life all the time.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, Strong, Book

  Wyndham Lewis (1939). “Wyndham Lewis the Artist”, p.323, Ardent Media

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• Actions are interesting to watch. I learn about the actors. Their movements are emblems of the tensions in this internal landscape, which their actions resolve. About-to-act is an interesting state to experience, because I am conscious of just those tensions. Acting itself feels fairly dull; it not only resolves, it obliterates those tensions from my consciousness. Acting is only interesting as it leads to new tensions that, irrelevantly, cause me to act again.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Interesting, Acting, Watches

  Samuel R. Delany (2010). “Dhalgren”, p.358, Hachette UK

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• Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Blood, Light, Growth

  "Philosophy and the Arts: Collected Essays". Book by Bert Olivier, 2009.

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• I don't run straight at a constant pace; soccer is always a change of pace and movement.

  Alex Morgan

  Soccer, Running, Pace

  "Hope Solo, Alex Morgan And Abby Wambach Excited To Run Chicago Marathon". Interview With Jordan Schultz, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2011.

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• America's Christian conservative movement is confronted with this divide: small-government advocates who want to practice their faith independent of heavy-handed government versus big-government sympathizers who want to impose their version of 'righteousness' on others through the hammer of law.... Our movement must avoid the temptations of power and those who would twist the good intentions of Christian voters to support policies that undermine freedom and grow government.

  Dick Armey

  Christian, Independent, Government

  "Christians and Big Government - Why faith requires freedom". FreedomWorks (freedomworks.org), October 12, 2006.

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• I begin with movement... I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement..

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

  Believe, Born, Visuals

  "Kirchner and the Berlin street" edited by Deborah Wye, Moma, New York, (p. 39), 2008.

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• Many people ... prefer to describe themselves as progressives rather than liberals. To some extent that's a response to the decades-long propaganda campaign conducted by movement conservatives, which has been quite successful in making Americans disdain the word liberal but much less successful in reducing support for liberal policies.

  Paul Krugman

  Successful, Long, People

  Paul Krugman (2009). “The Conscience of a Liberal”, p.268, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, and I had a lot of fun.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Mother, Fun, Memories

  "It Started With A Guy In Overalls". Interview with Satoru Iwata, www.nintendo.co.uk.

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• Not in the name of a necessary protection of the white race did the European break into China, but for the benefit of the Jewish-mercantile greed for profit. He thus dishonored himself, destroying a whole civilization, provoking justified indignation. China fights for its myth, for its race, and its ideals, as does the renewal-movement in Germany against the mercantile race that rules all stock markets and the actions of most governments.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Fighting, Civilization, Names

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, 1930.

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• Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, first to one side then to the other, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, no one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind.

  Jose Saramago

  Men, Doors, Judging

  "Blindness" by Jose Saramago, (p. 2), 1995.

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• Any politico who's afraid of his constituents being armed, should be. Leaders of the anti-gun movement (for the most part, politicians who enthusiastically advocate confiscatory taxation and government control of everything) realize that a populace is much easier to herd, loot and dispose of if it has been stripped of its weapons. The naked fraud and transparent fascism of victim disarmament must be eradicated through the repeal of all gun laws at every level of government.

  L. Neil Smith

  Gun, Law, Government

  "The Brontosaurus in the Broom Closet". The Libertarian Enterprise Article, www.ncc-1776.org. October 18, 2009.

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• While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane, nuclear, and God-knows-what-other panaceas, perhaps including bovine urine, there are no realistic, economically viable alternatives. None. Zero. Like it or not, as long as we remain dependent on the private automobile for transportation (roughly 80 percent of all movement in the nation is by car), we are harnessed to the IC gas engine.

  Brock Yates

  Zero, Media, Car

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• I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the ceremony, they played the second movement from Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, which is usually known as the "portrait of Stalin." And then when we embraced, the music that they played was Schubert's "Death and the Maiden." I enjoyed this in a childish way! But marriage was all a nightmare and so on and so on.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Symphony, Wife, Way

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