Quotes of Passivity - somelinesforyou

“ In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire. ”

- Charles Francis Adams

“ Apathy. A sort of living oblivion. ”

- Andrew Greeley

“ Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful. ”

- Samuel Beckett

“ Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ The greatest danger to our future is apathy. ”

- Jane Goodall

“ Apathy is the glove in which evil slips its hand. ”

- Unknown

“ Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice. ”

- Rollo May

“ It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence. ”

- Tanith Lee

“ Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care. ”

- Jimmy Buffett

“ Once in motion, a pattern tends to stay in motion. ”

- J. G. Gallimore

“ Once you're moving, you can keep moving. ”

- Ronald Alan Weiss

“ That's why many fail — because they don't get started — they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. ”

- W. Clement Stone

“ Remember, I'm not running against Rick Perry; I'm running against apathy. ”

- Kinky Friedman

“ Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom. ”

- Elizabeth George

“ In sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found. ”

- Hume

“ I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ 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. ”

- Lucretia Mott

“ A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting. ”

- Bill Moyers

“ Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. ”

- William Safire

“ There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. ”

- Juan Montalvo

“ The first step is the hardest. ”

- Unknown

“ The first step is the hardest. ”

- Marie de Vichy Chamrond

“ There can be no transforming of darkness into light, and of apathy into movement, without emotion. ”

- Carl Jung

“ There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. ”

- Carl Gustav Jung

“ Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. ”

- Henri Frederic Amiel

“ I don't know. I don't care. And it doesn't make any difference. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. ”

- Andrew Greeley

“ Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it… ”

- Peter McWilliams

“ 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… ”

- Maria Montessori
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