12 Passivity Quotes for You to Enjoy

Passivity is the same as defending injustice. Deepak Chopra

Injustice Passivity Same Defending

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

Responsibility Demanding Must Follow Road Uncontrolled Between Passivity Escalation

The tone of good web writing grows out of email. It's more direct, personal, colloquial, urgent, witty, efficient. It doesn't waste your time. It reflects that engagement, responsiveness, and haste of web surfers, as opposed to the more general passivity of print readers. Jacob Weisberg

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Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him. Bret Easton Ellis

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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. Christopher Hitchens

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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. Dorothy Thompson

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I would say that 'Schindler's List,' as powerful as it was, seemed to have continued with a particular iconography of victimization and passivity. That was the iconography with which I had grown up and to which I had grown accustomed. Edward Zwick

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I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will. Helen Garner

Will Own My Own Never Perhaps Understand Passivity

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

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. James Wolcott

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