Passivity Quotes
Passivity Quote of the day
The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.
The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.
Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.
Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language. The thing is, you can’t un-sin. You can only repent.
Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.
Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.
You can't be neutral on a moving train.
The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak.
Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing.
The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity.
We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity.
Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact.
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity.
The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity.
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.
Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.
Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.
I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.
What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.
Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.
The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.
A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting.
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.
In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of exclusive tenderness and passivity.
Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?
It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.
Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.
When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories.
Pursued by grace and supernatural power from God, I will passionately pursued my most cherished dreams.
If we are quiet enough, we can hear it: the space between us filling up fast with all the things we are too afraid to say to each other.
