It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the…

“In the twentieth century, astrophysicists in the United States discovered galaxies, the expanding of the universe, the nature of supernovas, quasars, black holes, gamma-ray…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support…

— Norman Thomas

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

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

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

— John Taylor Gatto

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Anonymous