"We are so placid that the smallest tremor……" — Cynthia Ozick

"We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution."

— Cynthia Ozick

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62 Quotes by Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.
The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination
I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a…
Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.
When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull…
The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.
The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk…
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This…

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More Apathy Quotes

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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty… — Charles Baudelaire
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy. — William Bernbach
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. — Ruben Blades
Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care. — Jimmy Buffett
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving… — Leo Buscaglia
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. — Thomas Carlyle
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel… — Noam Chomsky
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. — Winston Churchill
It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum… — Hillary Clinton
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people. — Louis D. Brandeis
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries. Besides the fanatical frenzy which is as dangerous in… — Winston Churchill

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