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
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — W. H. Auden 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
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination,… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
It's a bit scary to see my book come true: the recent (if minor) LA earthquakes, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston bomber, and… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously.… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Pursued by grace and supernatural power from God, I will passionately pursued my most cherished dreams.” — Lailah Gifty Akita 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
Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams.… — J. C. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like… — John Dewey 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
Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence. — Jill Johnston 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
I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material… — Charles Henry Parkhurst 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
“The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
