Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact. — Darren Rowse Copy Share Image
Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I could've loved you but the line is too long and your passiveness is endless.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will. — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity. — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language.… — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore… — Wilhelm Von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The cheerleaders for neoliberalism work hard to normalize dominant institutions and relations of power through a vocabulary and public pedagogy that create… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“Emotion, which is called a passivity of the soul, is a confused idea, whereby the mind affirms concerning its body, or any… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“I'm growing weary of passivity in the face of blatant sexism, racism, cultural privilege, wealth gap, and structural game rigging and the… — Monica Eady Copy Share Image
I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“That requires as much power as a small radio transmitter--and rather similar skills to operate. For it's the application of the power,… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
“Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to acknowledge the possibility of catastrophe. He felt that… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
We spoke of ourselves as "emancipated" when we got the vote. Yet we are still slaves to the superficial and the superfluous.… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
“Can you picture Ghandi or Buddha storming into the polling place of a local election, shouting, overturning tables, sending the participants fleeing?… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
