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Passivity is the same as defending injustice. -- Deepak Chopra
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. -- Mao Zedong
One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi. -- Ogden Nash
You can't be neutral on a moving train. -- Howard Zinn
Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one. -- Noam Chomsky
Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence. -- Jill Johnston
Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow. -- Dominique de Villepin
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
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 spectrum.... -- Noam Chomsky
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan. -- Ian Mcewan
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact. -- Darren Rowse
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk. -- Alan Hirsch
Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity. -- Franz Grillparzer
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 of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. -- Dorothy Thompson
Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks -- Ron Silver
I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain to a singing-silence - they look paradoxical - unless you attain to an unmoving dance, you have not attained. -- Rajneesh
Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood... -- J. G. Ballard
It is passivity that dulls feeling. -- Susan Sontag
When you don't decide, life decides for you. -- Marty Rubin
Don't stare out the window; run through the fields. -- Marty Rubin
Fate represents the fulfillment of man's expectations of himself. -- Barbara W. Tuchman
To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable. -- Virginia Woolf
Mannequins can't dress themselves. Stones go wherever you throw them. -- Marty Rubin
I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will. -- Helen Garner
The essential thing is learning how not to be absent from one's own life. -- Marty Rubin
Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion. -- Ryan Lilly
Pursued by grace and supernatural power from God, I will passionately pursued my most cherished dreams. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour. -- Claire Denis
Terry Eagleson says his family's aim was to have the words "We Were No Trouble" engraved on their gravestones. -- Maureen Corrigan
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective. -- Julia Cameron
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. -- Dorothy Thompson
When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories. -- Donald Miller
It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach. -- Pere La Combe
I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen. -- Julian Barnes
Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government. -- Tom Robbins
Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when ones button is pushed. -- T.F. Hodge
Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist. -- Noam Chomsky
In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force -- Angela Carter
Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse. -- Philip Zimbardo
If we are quiet enough, we can hear it: the space between us filling up fast with all the things we are too afraid to say to each other. -- Julian Aguon
Your daily output is directly proportional to your daily thoughts while your activity or passivity remains as a constant. You get what you think to do provided you do it! -- Israelmore Ayivor
The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming. -- Robert Greene
Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you can't cure a disaster by argument, what is the use to argue? -- Mark Twain
Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks. -- Ron Silver
When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting. -- Christopher Hitchens
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 resources, and my standing, must be secure before I can allow the uncertainty of war to crash down upon us. -- Derek Landy
Mediocrity is the companion of passivity and will not heed the call of great things. Courage is the companion of sacrifice and cannot help but heed the call of great things. And we are left of our own accord to choose one or the other. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis. -- Criss Jami
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. -- James Wolcott
Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him. -- Bret Easton Ellis
Television is a passivity. -- John Green
In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities. -- Howard Zinn
Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity -- Guy Debord
When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity. -- Sengcan
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. -- W. H. Auden
The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer's passivity. -- Watchman Nee
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject. -- Gaston Bachelard
The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity. -- Charles R. Swindoll
[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality. -- Jessica Valenti
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective. -- Julia Cameron
Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution. -- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution. -- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting. -- Bill Moyers
I wrote through darkness, vividly seeing: my passivity was not a crime; my desire to trust was not a flaw. -- Aspen Matis
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
We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity. -- Alistair Begg
We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being. -- Wendell Berry
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
Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead. -- Aldous Huxley
In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of exclusive tenderness and passivity. -- Barbara Degenevieve
he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will not pass muster with me. -- Andrew Saul
If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore passivity and reaction are everywhere equal. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak. -- Rollo May
The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature. -- Camille Paglia
Any belief system that is based on fear, encourages weakness, sanctions intolerance threatens vengeance, promotes passivity and requires you to relinquish your personal power is doing you a disservice. -- Walt F. J. Goodridge
We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy towards apathy, isolation, passivity, helplessness and separation. -- Noam Chomsky
Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It's a dead language. The thing is, you can't un-sin. You can only repent. -- Steven Furtick
Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box. -- Winston Churchill
It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine. -- Gloria Steinem

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