Passivity Quotes

• Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

  Deepak Chopra

  Passivity Is, Injustice

  "Just Capital: What the 99% Really Need (Part 2)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2012.

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• Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Inspirational, Peace, Ubuntu

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• Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

  Mao Zedong

  Passivity Is, Goal, Enemy

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• In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Procrastination, Men, Choices Made

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.119, Ballantine Books

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• Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Responsibility, Passivity Is, Escalation

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• You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.

  Ian Mcewan

  Writing, Men, Passivity Is

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• Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks

  Ron Silver

  Peace, Past, Pay The Price

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• People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Fall, Color

  Myles Munroe (2011). “Understanding Your Potential: Discovering the Hidden You”, p.12, Destiny Image Publishers

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• 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.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Passivity Is, Evil, Bully

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• It is passivity that dulls feeling.

  Susan Sontag

  Feelings

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.102, Macmillan

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  I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “An Effective Life: Inspirational Philosophy from Dr. Covey’s Life”, p.88, FranklinCovey Co.

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• The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Pseudo, Goes On, Today

  Slavoj Žižek (2014). “Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism”, p.170, Penguin UK

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• We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy towards apathy, isolation, passivity, helplessness and separation.

  Noam Chomsky

  Self, People, Apathy

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• One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Life, Action, Protection

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• Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very feminine, Krishna looks very feminine. Why? - because it is simply a metaphor. They have been depicted as feminine, graceful, to show that that is their inner quality - receptivity. When you are doing something you are being aggressive. When you are not doing anything you are non-aggressive. And God cannot be conquered; you can only allow him to conquer you.

  Rajneesh

  Quality, Looks, Conquer

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• Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.

  Kurt Lewin

  Learning, Effectiveness, Process

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• Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Differences, Important

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• Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams. Disbelief is now the enemy, as is the notion of settling. Get hungry- hyena hungry. Get fired up. Find your backbone, and your wings. Flap 'em. It's the only way you'll be able to fly.

  J. C. Hutchins

  Dream, War, Past

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• The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the waking day to canned music, watching packaged movie entertainment and capsulated news, for such people it would require an exceptional degree of awareness and an especial heroism of effort to be anything but supine consumers of processed goods.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Attitude, Greatness, Odds

  "The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 21), 1951.

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

  Jill Johnston

  Passivity Is, Dragons, Independence

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• Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Passivity Is, Social Transformation

  Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Peace Prize Speech in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1964.

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• When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity.

  Sengcan

  Effort, Trying, Achieve

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• The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity.

  Watchman Nee

  Omission, Evil, Giving

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.867, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Average, Ivory Tower

  W H Auden (1981). “Antæus”, Ecco Press

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