I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will. — Helen Garner 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
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. — Dorothy Thompson 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
Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession. It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control… — Thomas Szasz 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
Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as… — Bret Easton Ellis 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
Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one. — Noam Chomsky 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
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
Passivity is a tacit endorsement of evil we are too afraid to oppose actively. — Julien Baker 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
Nothing remains intact without effort. Repetition of formulas does not assure the transmission of thought. It is not safe to entrust a… — Henri de Lubac Copy Share Image
Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow. — Dominique de Villepin Copy Share Image
Some observers compare elections in some countries with sports events, where people are but spectators. Moreover, elections must not be mere interludes… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa 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
Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
