The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Passivity is a tacit endorsement of evil we are too afraid to oppose actively. — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection. — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“The public must be reduced to passivity in the political realm, but for submissiveness to become a reliable trait, it must be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of… — Barbara Degenevieve Copy Share Image
“The best approach is often passivity-a gentle, passive being-there that gives survivors permission to grieve, heal, and recover in their own unique… — Andrew Slaby Copy Share Image
Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Any belief system that is based on fear, encourages weakness, sanctions intolerance threatens vengeance, promotes passivity and requires you to relinquish your… — Walt F. J. Goodridge Copy Share Image
The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Every public space is like a billboard, with messages from the collective subconscious of the nation. There one can read passivity, rage… — Slavenka Drakulic Copy Share Image
I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
We've had eight years of passivity with Barack Obama where whatever anybody around the world wanted to do to America, we just… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Passivity is one of the main enemies of biblical masculinity and it’s most obvious where it’s needed most. It’s a pattern of… — Randy Stinson Copy Share Image
The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess.… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
“In sum, then a conservative tech writer offers a really attractive way of looking at viewer passivity and TV's institutionalization of irony,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The problem is going to be, "Let's see, I spent all day staring at a computer screen and then at night my… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence. — Jill Johnston Copy Share Image
“Passivity will bring you short-term popularity, assertiveness will bring you respect.” — Robin Parry Copy Share Image
When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity. — Sengcan Copy Share Image
“Many of us learned that passivity lessened the possibility of attack.” — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
