Inert Quotes

82 quotes by 74 authors

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint… — Shirley Chisholm
It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history. — Frederica Mathewes-Green
The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people. — Louis D. Brandeis
Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you… — Clement of Alexandria
Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum… — Freeman Dyson
It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard… — Mahatma Gandhi
It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has… — Madame de Stael
Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a… — Ferdinand de Saussure
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal… — Marquis de Sade
Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds… — Jane Jacobs
If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is… — Philip Pullman
Be a busy person. People who are active are often much more at peace with themselves than those who are inactive and inert. — Wayne Dyer
We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers. — Rabindranath Tagore
It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that… — Alfred Jarry
Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real.… — Walter Lippmann
Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or… — Nikola Tesla
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space. — Gaston Bachelard
Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions that… — Donna J. Haraway
Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert. — Donna J. Haraway

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