The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....
Noam ChomskyTags: opinion control 1998 acceptable-opinion debate limit lively-debate obedience obedient passive passivity
To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.
Virginia WoolfTags: passivity
That requires as much power as a small radio transmitter--and rather similar skills to operate. For it's the application of the power, not its amount, that matters. How long do you think Hitler's career as a dictator of Germany would have lasted, if wherever he went a voice was talking quietly in his ear? Or if a steady musical note, loud enough to drown all other sounds and to prevent sleep, filled his brain night and day? Nothing brutal, you appreciate. Yet, in the final analysis, just as irresistible as a tritium bomb.
Arthur C. ClarkeAnarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.
Tom RobbinsTags: anarchy revolution government passivity cuba
I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My resources, and my standing, must be secure before I can allow the uncertainty of war to crash down upon us.
Derek LandyTags: war preparedness passivity
The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when ones button is pushed.
T.F. HodgeTags: strength peace journey path quotes passivity restraint
I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis.
Criss JamiTags: man zealot world individualism absolutes open-mindedness beliefs passivity convictions unions meaninglessness robot-world heartbeat dead-world rigor-mortis
You can't be neutral on a moving train.
Howard ZinnTags: history justice indifference neutrality passivity convictions
I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.
Julian BarnesThe writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement. What is weakness in the man becomes a quality in the writer. For he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work. That is why the writer is the loneliest man in the world; because he lives, fights, dies, is reborn always alone; all his roles are played behind a curtain. In life he is an incongruous figure.
Anaïs NinTags: writing writer passivity anaïs-nin
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