Passivity Quotes

71 quotes by 60 authors

Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like to take it,… — Anais Nin
So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified… — Thomas Pynchon
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets… — John Dewey
...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over… — Naomi Wolf
Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy,… — Antonio Lobo Antunes
(From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he had not thought… — Peter Carey
The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember… — Jessica Valenti
People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity of… — Susan Sontag
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph… — Dorothy Thompson
It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so… — Julia Cameron
Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and… — Paul Auster
Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug. — Caroline Knapp
I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My… — Derek Landy
You can't be neutral on a moving train. — Howard Zinn
Television is a passivity. — John Green
I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen. — Julian Barnes
The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads… — Anais Nin
It is passivity that dulls feeling. — Susan Sontag
Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one. — Noam Chomsky
One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldnâ€™t… — Elif Safak

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