Agitation may refer to:
- Agitation (action), putting into motion by shaking or stirring
- Emotional state of excitement or restlessness
- Psychomotor agitation, an extreme form of the above, which can be part of a mental illness or a side effect of anti-psychotic medication
- Agitation (dementia)
- Political agitation, political activities in which an agitator urges people to do something
- Agitation and Propaganda against the State, former criminal offence in communist Albania
- Anti-Soviet agitation, a criminal offence in the Soviet Union
- Agitated, a B-Side from the band Muse
Famous quotes containing the word agitation:
“It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, it is the agitation of all men ... that alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.”
—Georges Bataille (1897–1962)
“POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?)
“There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)