Passivity Quotes

71 quotes by 60 authors

I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light,… — Maurice Blanchot
People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America… — Tennessee Williams
Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity? — Gayle Forman
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good.… — Peter McWilliams
Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing. — Martin Seligman
Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue… — Noam Chomsky
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. — Dorothy Thompson
Non violent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and… — John Dewey
The Theory of Quantum Mechanics says that my life has to fall apart for it to come back together in a higher order. And so… — Ms Becky From Msbatmancom
Some people are just addicted to suffering. They think that it will somehow make them happy at the end when really what they're doing is… — Aokigahara29

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