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
One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In sum, then a conservative tech writer offers a really attractive way of looking at viewer passivity and TV's institutionalization of irony,… — David Foster Wallace 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
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
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
“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
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. We are not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs or replace… — Peter McWilliams 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
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
“It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach.” — Pere La Combe 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
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
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
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
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively… — Noam Chomsky 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
You're an evolving and transforming person, right? And how do we capture that dynamics of sexuality in that complex sense? There may… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi. — Ogden Nash 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
