Passivism Quotes & Sayings

Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death. — Franz Werfel

This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still around, but from here on in, for reasons I'm not at liberty to disclose, I've disguised myself so cunningly that even the cleverest reader will fail to recognize me. — J.D. Salinger

Your first mistake might be assuming that people are rational.
Your second mistake could be assuming that people are eager for change.
And the marketer's third mistake is assuming that once someone knows things the way you know them, they will choose what you chose. — Seth Godin

The author says the mark of a true rest your creature is an inability to be still without a kind of resignation. — C.S. Lewis

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, because they're more certain they are their own. — Greg Iles

The absolute desire of 'having more' encourages the selfishness that destroys communal bonds among the children of God. It does so because the idolatry of riches prevents the majority from sharing the goods that the Creator has made for all, and in the all-possessing minority it produces an exaggerated pleasure in these goods. — Oscar Romero

For the religious, passivism [i.e., objects are obedient to the laws of nature] provides a clear role of God as the author of the laws of nature. If the laws of nature are God's commands for an essentially passive world ... , God also has the power to suspend the laws of nature, and so perform miracles. — Brian Ellis

Most people like to live in illusions. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Every selfish motive therefore, every family attachment, ought to recommend such a system of policy as would provide no less carefully for the rights and happiness of the lowest than of the highest orders of Citizens. — George Mason