Passivity Quotes

71 quotes by 60 authors

Passivity is the same as defending injustice. — Deepak Chopra
I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral… — Lucretia Mott
You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a state of effortlessness.… — Rajneesh
I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain to a singing-silence… — Rajneesh
Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very feminine, Krishna looks… — Rajneesh
Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact. — Darren Rowse
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen… — John Ralston Saul
Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions… — Ron Silver
A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system that no longer… — Jacques Derrida
When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a… — Julia Serano
So go marry someone, provided you're equally yoked and you actually like being with each other. Go get a job, provided it's not wicked. Go… — Kevin DeYoung
Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow. — Dominique de Villepin
Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society… — Shelby Steele
We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. Itâ€™s a dead language. The thing is,… — Steven Furtick
Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene… — Philip Zimbardo
Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent… — Aldous Huxley
Nothing remains intact without effort. Repetition of formulas does not assure the transmission of thought. It is not safe to entrust a doctrinal treasure to… — Henri de Lubac
War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends, and apply it… — Howard Zinn

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