Docile Quotes

50 quotes by 47 authors

The Bread that we need each day to grow in eternal life, makes of our will a docile instrument of the Divine Will; sets the… — Edith Stein
Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment, not… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
You must know how to translate the indications of the word into daily witness, allowing yourselves to be formed by the word which, like seed… — Pope Benedict XVI
The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile,… — Michel Foucault
The horse has such a docile nature, that he would always rather do right the wrong, if he can only be taught to distinguish one… — George W. Melville
We have castrated society through fear and intimidation. Its manhood exists only in combination with a feminine outward appearance. Being so neutered, the populace has… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal
It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and write, words grow… — Philippe Claudel
And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his… — Plato
We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and… — William O. Douglas
And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great… — Louis Aragon
Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms. — William Sims
To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded.… — Primo Levi
We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a… — Lewis Mumford
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same… — H. L. Mencken
Then ego goes on growing, because the society needs you as an ego, not as a Self. The Self is irrelevant for the society; your… — Rajneesh
It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show… — James Bovard
We resist mindlessness of any kind. Again, drugs, like television, are fine for other people. The more enslaved they are, the easier it is for… — Blanche Barton
Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child… — Gore Vidal
Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher? — John Taylor Gatto
One doesn't have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed human beings into… — Gary Hamel

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