I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I… — Derek Landy 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
I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain… — Anonymous 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
