Passivity Quotes

71 quotes by 60 authors

One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection. — Madeleine M. Kunin
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams. Disbelief is now… — J. C. Hutchins
Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and… — Nathaniel Branden
Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may… — Winston Churchill
The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They donâ€™t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation… — E E Cummings
Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter.… — Eric Hoffer
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of… — Ian Mcewan
Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one… — Bret Easton Ellis
The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believerâ€™s passivity. — Watchman Nee
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures… — Vance Packard
The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what… — Rollo May
The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study… — Matthew Arnold
Any belief system that is based on fear, encourages weakness, sanctions intolerance threatens vengeance, promotes passivity and requires you to relinquish your personal power is… — Walt F. J. Goodridge
When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude… — Christopher Hitchens
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit… — James Wolcott
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. — Mao Zedong
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that… — Noam Chomsky

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