Quotes About Passivity

When confronting the reality of racism, white people become sad, angry, overwhelmed, numb, anxious, and passive.

At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them

It's just, honey, Cinderella doesn't really do anything.

The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral.

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.

the observer is, more often than not, passive. writing chiefly about his or her surroundings, and the people he or she meets. The writer reacts, instead of acts. Well, i suppose they [travel writers] do act, in that they have to do the traveling, choose the destinations, and so forth, but again, largely they are observant cargo, being shuttled from place to place with notebook in hand.

He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away.

Television's greatest minute-by-minute appeal is that it engages without demanding. One can rest while undergoing stimulation. Receive without giving.

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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.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.

Looking back, Val knew she had a habit of trusting too much, being too passive, too willing to believe the best of others and the worst of herself.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

T]he problem was too much information. The population was being inundated with conflicting versions of increasingly complex events. People were giving up on understanding anything. The glut of information was dulling awareness, not aiding it. Overload. It encouraged passivity, not involvement.

And he waited—as he always had—for life to come and find him.

He enjoys the passivity of sitting in a classroom again, listening to an instructor, being told what to do. He is reminded of being a student, of a time when his father was still alive.

The way to be nothing is to do nothing.

Worshiping someone requires complete passivity. To turn the principle of immobility into a rule.

To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system thereby the oppressed become the oppressor.

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

It is with a certain lethargy that I let everything take its course.

All my life, she thought, I have let things pass me by.