Quietism Quotes

#1. True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations: quietism on the one hand, and spiritual fuss upon the other. Neither from passivity nor from anxiety has it anything to gain.

Evelyn Underhill

#2. Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

Terry Eagleton

#3. 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.

Dorothy Thompson

#4. With quietism like yours one could fill a hundred years with happiness. Whether one showed you an execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. If i were pressed to give my brand of political thought a label, I would call it pessimistic anarchistic quietism

J.M. Coetzee

#6. Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.

George Orwell

#7. Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

Dorothy Thompson

#8. When I'm not happy, I can't play. That's just the way I am.

Jaromir Jagr

#9. If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

Voltaire

#10. This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.

Helen Keller

#11. The real freedom comes to us when we can learn to go inside and connect with that voice. Then, we're not relying on outsiders.

Echo Bodine

#12. The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me
Cruelly, being barren.
Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her.

Sylvia Plath

#13. I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.

Audre Lorde

#14. Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

John F. Kerry

#15. I care about you," Simon said. "I always cared about you.

Cassandra Clare

#16. But as to the question, 'What more convenient way of punishment can be found?' I think it much easier to find out that than to invent anything that is worse; why

Thomas More

#17. If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

Nicole Ari Parker

#18. There are only two kinds of religion in the world ... They all say, "Do, do, do." Only Christianity says, "Done." Christ has done it all.

J. Vernon McGee

#19. Life changed at 40 for me, as predicted by my acting teacher when I was leaving college. I became more hirable and more interesting ... I'm not sure why.

Roger Bart