Passivity Quotes

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.

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.

I don`t feel enjoyment watching films that evoke passivity. If you need that kind of comfort, I don`t understand why you wouldn`t go to a spa.

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. Moreover, if you don`t fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.