I was very quiet, very shy and docile.

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity…

— Anonymous

It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The horse has such a docile nature, that he would always rather do right the wrong, if he can only be taught to distinguish…

— George W. Melville

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good,…

— James Bovard

I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost hear Percy…

— Jeff Smith

Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who…

— Charles Lamb

Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid.…

— Joanne Harris

The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a…

— Michel Foucault

Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with…

— Chadwick Boseman

When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened…

— John Calvin

We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.

— Bruno Latour

Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

— John Taylor Gatto

My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The Seal, she lounges like a bride,Much too docile, there's no doubt;Madame Récamier, on side,(if such she has), and bottom out.

— Djuna Barnes

His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently to Him,…

— Elizabeth Gaskell