Quotes About Passivity

Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead.

The trouble with men is that they are mean-they may mean, but they don't move.

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

It's pathetic how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great"-Hans Junior

She was carried along by events, not reflecting on them, just letting them sweep over her.

We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith.

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.

Active evil is better than passive good

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.

forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums

No hope no action.

Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence.

When the silent majority opens its mouth, it is usually to yawn.

Or is there something that you "should" be doing but are not doing it? Get up and do it now. Alternatively, completely accept your inactivity, laziness, or passivity at this moment, if that is your choice. Go into it fully. Enjoy it. Be as lazy or inactive as you can. If you go into it fully and consciously, you will soon come out of it. Or maybe you won't. Either way, there is no inner conflict, no resistance, no negativity.

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Warhol was the ultimate voyeur, constantly observing people through the lens. He watched and listened, but did not participate. Behind the camera, Warhol was in control.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

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.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Retired people don't so much die as they let themselves fall asleep a bit at a time. They become passive and inactive and they forget they're alive.

A large segment of the public willingly resigns itself to political passivity in a world in which it cannot expect to make well-founded judgments.

As a priest of forty years, I find that much of the spiritual and pastoral work of churches is often ineffective at the levels of real transformation, and calls forth immense passivity and even many passive-aggressive responses

While his mother sank in his eyes into the embodiment of passivity and victimization, he found it almost impossible to forge warm ties with other human beings.