Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will. — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection. — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
Passivity is a tacit endorsement of evil we are too afraid to oppose actively. — Julien Baker 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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 particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity. — Watchman Nee 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
Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence. — Jill Johnston Copy Share Image
