Passivity Quotes

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

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

The wrestlers are much more aware of where they are on the mat and it makes them do more wrestling in the center of the mat. The new rules are designed to promote more aggressive wrestling. The new rules are also less subjective. We no longer have the caution of passivity call. - David Black

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. - Maria Montessori

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

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

Passivity is the same as defending injustice. - Deepak Chopra

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. - Mao Tse-Tung

Non violent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity with arraying himself in vindictive force. - Martin Luther King Jr.