Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will. — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact. — Darren Rowse Copy Share Image
“I could've loved you but the line is too long and your passiveness is endless.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“Your daily output is directly proportional to your daily thoughts while your activity or passivity remains as a constant. You get what… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
“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
“The public must be reduced to passivity in the political realm, but for submissiveness to become a reliable trait, it must be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore… — Wilhelm Von Humboldt Copy Share Image
So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will… — Andrew Saul Copy Share Image
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace… — Anonymous 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
Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and… — e. e. cummings 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
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to acknowledge the possibility of catastrophe. He felt that… — Yukio Mishima 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 spoke of ourselves as "emancipated" when we got the vote. Yet we are still slaves to the superficial and the superfluous.… — Mary Barnett Gilson 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
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
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
“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
“Many of us learned that passivity lessened the possibility of attack.” — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity. — Sengcan Copy Share Image
Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence. — Jill Johnston Copy Share Image
“Passivity will bring you short-term popularity, assertiveness will bring you respect.” — Robin Parry 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
