Passivity Quote by Howard Zinn Download Open image “In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.” — Howard Zinn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Passivity Possibility Thousand War
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible,… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“A black man, Benjamin Banneker, who taught himself mathematics and astronomy, predicted accurately a solar eclipse, and was appointed to plan the new city… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“a good education is a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, because each enrich the other. The accumulation of knowledge, while… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and statesmen and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not overwhelming evidence,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you wouldn't, maybe… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy.… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Sexual purity was to be the special virtue of a woman. It was assumed that men, as a matter of biological nature, would sin,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Middle-class Americans might be invited to join a new elite by attacks against the corruption of the established rich. The New Yorker Cadwallader Colden,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
It's a bit scary to see my book come true: the recent (if minor) LA earthquakes, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston bomber, and so on… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Pursued by grace and supernatural power from God, I will passionately pursued my most cherished dreams.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“That requires as much power as a small radio transmitter--and rather similar skills to operate. For it's the application of the power, not its… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
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… — J. C. Hutchins Copy Share Image
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… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
