Docile Quotes

50 quotes by 46 authors

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for… — James Bovard
Learning as we go... Why didn't they tell us this before? We, the consumers, are supposed to be docile guinea pigs in a vast but… — Ralph W. Moss
What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature. — Thales
Americans tote guns because they're assertive citizens, not docile subjects of a permanent governing class. They love their military because they think there's something contemptible… — Mark Steyn
Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals. — H. L. Mencken
It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world. — Rabindranath Tagore
The Japanese tend to be far more co-operative and docile and group-oriented. It would be easier to get the entire population of Tokyo to wear… — Dave Barry
Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone,… — Chadwick Boseman
The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates. — Horace
A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile… — Itay Talgam
Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say… — Amber Heard
Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind. — Langston Hughes
When you drink fluoridated water, you're drinking liquid Prozac. You drink enough of it, even though it's a small amount, drink it for decades and… — Jesse Ventura
A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with… — John Stuart Mill
All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark… — Arthur Rimbaud
Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The… — Joanne Harris
How's our young guest?" he asked. As docile as any child could be, wearing a drug-delivery system as she is," said one of the ministers.… — Frank Beddor
The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I… — Confucius
His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently to Him, He… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest… — Herman Melville

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