Quotes About Passivity

Non-violence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement—not replace—the process of change through legal recourse. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

Everybody watched. Nobody stopped them.

which didn't do much of anything

Except this "if we're meant to meet, we'll meet" attitude isn't truly relaxed. So we're not going to commend you for it. This attitude is more passive than relaxed. A passivity born of entitlement. You are owed a soul mate; this has been promised to you since birth. Everybody knows that. So why worry?

Passivity is aggressively doing nothing and allowing life—or anything else—to do everything for you.

Eu sei que provoquei tudo isso. Sei que mereço. Eu tento de tudo para não ser assim. Faço de tudo para agradar a todos. E não tenho de ver meu psiquiatra, que me explique sobre ser agressivo-passivo. E não tenho de tomar o remédio que ele me passa, que é caro demais para meu pai. E não tenho de falar de minhas lembranças com ele. Ou ser nostálgico com coisas ruins.

Strunk and White don't speculate as to why so many writers are attracted to passive verbs, but I'm willing to; I think timid writers like them for the same reason timid lovers like passive partners. The passive voice is safe.

Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control. Here's Love Connection. Watch this and get fat and stupid.

According to Scientific American, people watching TV "reported feeling relaxed and passive. The EEG studies similarly show less mental stimulation, as measured by alpha brain-wave production, during viewing than during reading. . . . Habit-forming drugs work in similar ways." In short, scientists conclude that "TV does seem to meet the criteria for substance dependence."1

Era la enfermedad general, ya crónica, que se agravaba. Mas no por ello moría el enfermo: España tenía fibra y agallas para resistir la tanta calamidad; su sobriedad de mendigo le garantizaba la existencia; su pasividad fatalista le permitía seguir arrastrándose y dando tumbos, hasta que vinieran hombres y tiempos mejores, los cuales... ¡ay! también podría suceder que no vinieran.

apático y de la timidez que era el resultado

Another subtle but worrisome effect television has on its viewers is its tendency to promote passivity and a lack of creativity. Watching television requires little mental activity on the viewer's part. You simply sit and let the images flow by. Some research suggests that this sort of nonparticipatory viewing fosters a short attention span, making it hard for children to apply themselves in school. Obesity

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.

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

Passivity: "A spirit's activity is measured by the degree of passivity or submissiveness which he finds in the sensitive, or medium." "Mediumship ... by diligent cultivation may be attained by anyone who deliberately yields up his body, with his free will, and sensitive and intellectual faculties, to an invading or controlling spirit.

They're always like, 'Would my character really do this or really do that?' And I'm like, 'Who gives a shit? Just make them do it, you coward. Don't be so passive.' You and I, we're in charge of what we can do and what we can't do.

But, of course, it is not for their language that the tribalists are fighting: they are fighting to protect their level of awareness, their mental passivity, their obedience to the tribe, and their desire to ignore the existence of outsiders.

They rouse themselves mentally only long enough to utter an I wish, and stop there, and wait, as if the rest were up to some unknown power.

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Inactivity is death.

The spectacle presents itself as a vast inaccessible reality that can never be questioned. Its sole message is: "What appears is good; what is good appears." The passive acceptance it demands is already effectively imposed by its monopoly of appearances, its manner of appearing without allowing any reply.