Popular Movements Quotes

#1. There is a long and successful tradition of popular movements in the U.S. and elsewhere having an impact on crises in forgotten places.

John Prendergast

#2. A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist governments and undermine and destroy popular movements whenever possible.

Michael Parenti

#3. All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

Adolf Hitler

#4. In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that was followed by economic sanctions and other measures - sometimes officials, countries, cities, towns - some organized by popular movements.

Noam Chomsky

#5. It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

Henry James Sumner Maine

#6. If only we could stand outside our lives and look at what we do, we might repair so many injuries before they're done.

Orson Scott Card

#7. The wind bent to her will. She spun in place, starting for the door. She had to find Aldrik and tell him.

Elise Kova

#8. Once you close down your laboratory, you can't just rev it up again if you're able to finally get a grant.

Laurie Glimcher

#9. First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

#10. We write to discover what we think.

Joan Didion

#11. If you don't believe in yourself, how can you ask others to do so?

Napoleon Hill

#12. Above all, practice being loyal to your Soul.

Roger Delano Hinkins

#13. Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can't make the right sort of settlement, so I'm aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.

Donald Trump

#14. Drunk, he was leering and silent and mostly asleep. Sober, he was a watcher, a horror of a man who missed nothing and commented on everything. Nothing was ever done right or cooked right or handed to him properly or ironed straight or finished off fully with him.

Donal Ryan

#15. I've learned that the heart can't be
told when and who and how it should love. The
heart does whatever the hell it wants to do. The
only thing we can control is whether we give our
lives and our minds the chance to catch up to our
hearts.

Colleen Hoover

#16. The narcissism of student movements, new Left ideologues and the popular culture of the '60s generation invited a conservative backlash.

Tony Judt