Quotes About Passivity

It's been sickening how much money I've passed up.

escape is the byword—forwards, backwards, or sideways—into alcohol, busyness, good works, passivity, fantasy, or even madness. For the reality of the present and the immediate future seem even more frightening today

This reticence has little to do with trying to protect oneself and everything to do with trying to protect others from one's problems, which shouldn't be theirs; it's one reason Japan is so confounding to foreigners, as its people faultlessly sparkle and attend to one another in in public, while often seeming passive and unconvinced of their ability to do anything decisive at home.

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man.

Not responding is a response.

although in truth her passivity was calculated, because she knew passivity inflamed him. He had her, and to some extent she wanted to be had, like an animal: in a mute mutual privacy of violence.

he understood with a certain bitterness that he could expect nothing from those pupils who accepted his doctrine passively, but that he could expect something from those who occasionally dared to oppose him.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.

As a culture, we really like our food passive.

Black people are expected to be passive citizens, good immigrants, mute and grateful.

Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there's something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you're looking at other people's imagination at work.

There are certain times when I was younger, I was occasionally more passive.

When I'm at my best, I'm ready to hit from pitch one. When I go up there and I'm passive, I'm not as successful.

There are moments I get pretty passive and just have to be aggressive.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.

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.

Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour.

I think what - I think what the American people is looking for is they are looking for moral and intellectual courage and clarity, and not a sense of passivity or confusion.

I'm always a little passive and can come across as being pathetic.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.