Zitat des Tages über Passivität / Passivity:
Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour.
I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.
Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.
I'm really interested in passivity as a type of action - sort of allowing the situation to change you, choosing to give in being an act of agency rather than an act of submission.
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.
When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.
Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Passivity is the same as defending injustice.
