Quotes About Inertia

But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.

I didn't move: I had no moving left in me.

Trying to fight inertia and indifference with analytical arguments is like tossing a fire extinguisher to someone who's drowning. The solution doesn't match the problem.

The status quo feels comfortable and steady because much of the choice has been squeezed out. You have your routines, your ways of doing things.

Her life was one endless loop that she raced around, with steep banked curves so she could never change or slow down. It just delivered her back to herself, over and over and over.

The only sure way to alter today's patently unequal democracy is for average Americans to mobilize politically—to break out of their political inertia and to move forcefully back into the political arena.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy

Time was defined by change, and very little changed for a blue whale. He noticed everything but was concerned with nothing.

At the first rumors of revolt, or even in preventive anticipation, the ruling class would take up the mace and the sword to re-establish its authority. This tension kept the main beneficiaries of the parasitic regime in a state of animal alertness and fitness; and they habitually re-sharpened their predatory edge by hunting lions and tigers. Those who lost their edge and sank into parasitic inertia were speedily displaced by more able and active rivals.

The strategy of power has long seemed founded on the apathy of the masses. The more passive they were, the more secure it was. But this logic is only characteristic of the bureaucratic and centralist phase of power. And it is this which today turns against it: the inertia it has fostered becomes the sign of its death.

But against the acceleration of networks and circuits, we will also look for slowness—not the nostalgic slowness of the mind, but insoluble immobility, the slower than slow: inertia and silence, inertia insoluble by effort, silence insoluble by dialogue. There is a secret here too.

One knows that the social can be dissolved in a panic reaction, an uncontrollable chain reaction. But it can also be dissolved in the opposite reaction, a chain reaction of inertia, each micro-universe saturated, auto-regulated, computerized, isolated in automatic pilot. Advertising is the prefiguration of this: the first manifestation of an uninterrupted thread of signs, like ticker tape—each isolated in its inertia.

But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must lend it his own body. It was other people's anger. Swine! He clenched his fists, he strode along, but nothing came, the anger remained external to himself.

Presupun c? numai din lene lumea e aceea?i de la o zi la alta.

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

So design your space for flexibility instead of inertia and the status quo.

No, you can forget their going anywhere.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.

agreement of body with inertia agreement with emptiness weightlessness of time rest on the ground recovered earth -- it crumbles -- it melts -- words penetrating the ground -- it dissolves -- loss of possessions -- loss of power -- like dead the buried text

Complacency by the masses is my greatest weapon.

Let's talk about habituation

I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

Virtuous motives, trammelled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness.