Quotes About Passivity

The public must be reduced to passivity in the political realm, but for submissiveness to become a reliable trait, it must be entrenched in the realm of belief as well.

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome." ? Noam Chomsky

Todo esto, y mucho más, puede ocurrir mientras prevalezca la doctrina Muasher. Mientras la población general permanezca pasiva, apática y desviada hacia el consumismo o el odio a los vulnerables, los poderosos pueden hacer lo que les plazca; y los que sobrevivan podrán contemplar el resultado.

Girls, to her mind, suffered an agony of suspense and an embarrassing passivity during prom season.

The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

This is passive-aggression in action.

The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. Let Big Brother do the singing and dancing for you. Be a reporter. Be a good witness. A grateful member of the audience.

The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.

She says that the problem with passive people is that they force you to take action. After that, they hate you for it.

If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually watching television and surfing the internet are really excellent practise for being dead.

These chicken chokers. Didn't bother to read any feminist theory beyond that outdated Andrea Dworkin tripe. Nothing sex-positive. Nothing along the lines of Naomi Wolf. I come, therefore I am… No, whether a woman is a concubine to fuck or a damsel to redeem, she's always just some passive object to fulfill a man's purpose.

Boredom, passivity, stagnation: these are the beginning of mental illness, which propagates itself like the scum on a stagnant pond.

To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

The point is, all my life I've hung back, never going after what I really wanted, trying to be content with settling for less. Meanwhile, life went on all around me, but I was never really a part of it.

He did nothing, but he looked on as few other men could have done.

The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not possession of the Truth, but rather the pursuit of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectibility is to be found. Possession makes one passive, indolent, and proud.

He'd somehow lived a detached life, more Like a spectator than a participant in his own existence.

Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity

We know the presence of each passing moment by its activity, but the power and eternity of the moment can only be realized through our choosing to be consciously passive to that presence.

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.

Conway said quietly, "If you'd had all the experiences I've had, you'd know that there are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

A wrong person is not always wrong because of their wrong actions, often they are wrong because of no actions.

Once we're ignored or dismissed long enough, conservatives seem to just shrug our collective shoulders and accept defeat. It's this type of passivity that has allowed progressives to dominate film and television, universities and large swaths of the mainstream news media.