People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while… — Tennessee Williams 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
In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of… — Barbara Degenevieve Copy Share Image
“The best approach is often passivity-a gentle, passive being-there that gives survivors permission to grieve, heal, and recover in their own unique… — Andrew Slaby Copy Share Image
What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with… — Lucretia Mott 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
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
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify… — Ian Mcewan 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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The cheerleaders for neoliberalism work hard to normalize dominant institutions and relations of power through a vocabulary and public pedagogy that create… — Henry Giroux 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
Every public space is like a billboard, with messages from the collective subconscious of the nation. There one can read passivity, rage… — Slavenka Drakulic Copy Share Image
Across all Cinderella versions it was clear that the 21st century was not very much in evidence, particularly in the character of… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
So go marry someone, provided you're equally yoked and you actually like being with each other. Go get a job, provided it's… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy… — Joan Didion 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
The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a… — Anais Nin 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
“Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing… — Tennessee Williams 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
The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity. — Charles R. Swindoll 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
A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting. — Bill Moyers 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
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
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. — Dorothy Thompson 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
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity. — Alistair Begg 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
The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain… — Alan Hirsch 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
“although in truth her passivity was calculated, because she knew passivity inflamed him. He had her, and to some extent she wanted… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the… — Aldous Huxley 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
