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
We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“He suffered from an unlucky faculty—common to many men, especially Russians—the faculty of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Communion with God does not imply turning off your mind but turning it on - to be renewed in our minds. We're… — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the… — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
“Likewise, the passive tasks—Facebook, email, television, etc.—are easy. And they are fine in small doses (I’ll likely check my email for thirty… — Joshua Fields Millburn Copy Share Image
“Huxley’s assertion was that technology would lead to passivity. The ease with which we could consume mind-numbing entertainments and distractions would ultimately… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“Many of us learned that passivity lessened the possibility of attack.” — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“I could've loved you but the line is too long and your passiveness is endless.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality. — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“The majority understood that his passivity was not that of a hero taking his ease but that of a cataclysm in repose.” — No One Writes to the Colonel Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“I'm growing weary of passivity in the face of blatant sexism, racism, cultural privilege, wealth gap, and structural game rigging and the… — Monica Eady Copy Share Image
Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Emotion, which is called a passivity of the soul, is a confused idea, whereby the mind affirms concerning its body, or any… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but… — Camille Paglia 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
One of my moments of coming to writing, of needing to write to attempt to create myself, to attempt to absolve and… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to… — Tadeusz Borowski 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
The soul journey inward is when we are invited to cast aside beliefs and behaviors that no longer serve us and release… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
Think about every time you've seen someone being objectified, abused, enslaved. We see it constantly on the TV, in magazines, on the… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused… — Julia Serano Copy Share Image
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