Passivity Quotes

He suffered from an unlucky faculty—common to many men, especially Russians—the faculty of seeing an...

Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When...

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable op...

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. Th...

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. Th...

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. Th...

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. Th...

Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobb...

The complacency of the individual who admires his own excellence is bad enough, but it is more respe...

Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets ...

Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to ackno...

With all the confusion in the world these days, no matter how often I point the way, what good does ...

The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like anothe...

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she ...

That requires as much power as a small radio transmitter--and rather similar skills to operate. For ...

In sum, then a conservative tech writer offers a really attractive way of looking at viewer passivit...

I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I've sought – as my own version of th...

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.