The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone. — Franz Grillparzer 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
The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity. — Watchman Nee 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
Passivity is a tacit endorsement of evil we are too afraid to oppose actively. — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection. — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent;being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two… — Franz Grillparzer 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
“Pursued by grace and supernatural power from God, I will passionately pursued my most cherished dreams.” — Lailah Gifty Akita 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
“There's no such thing as passivity. You're either consciously inactive or unconsciously inactive. In both cases, you're interfering with a certain outcome… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes… — Slavoj Žižek 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
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
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role.… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
“Male passivity is a disease that robs a man of his purpose while it destroys marriages, ruins families, and spoils legacies. A… — Dennis Rainey Copy Share Image
The Theory of Quantum Mechanics says that my life has to fall apart for it to come back together in a higher… — Ms Becky From Msbatmancom Copy Share Image
(From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he… — Peter Carey 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
...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
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
“Passivity is one of the main enemies of biblical masculinity and it’s most obvious where it’s needed most. It’s a pattern of… — Randy Stinson Copy Share Image
The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
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
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 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
“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
“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