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Passivity Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- 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…
- Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.
- Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue…
More Passivity Quotes
- I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with… — Lucretia Mott
- Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very… — Rajneesh
- Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact. — Darren Rowse
- Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals… — John Ralston Saul
- Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by… — Shelby Steele
- (From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he… — Peter Carey
- It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others.… — Julia Cameron
- The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a… — Anais Nin