|
afddceb
|
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....
|
|
acceptable-opinion
lively-debate
obedient
limit
passive
debate
opinion
control
passivity
obedience
|
Noam Chomsky |
|
670be17
|
Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.
|
|
passive
|
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
|
8ba7bc1
|
Notes? Kromer was a hinge between worlds, a glimpser. All he had to offer them was his own notes, not the world itself. This situation he couldn't make understood.
|
|
sex-toys
passive
perversion
pervert
|
Jonathan Lethem |
|
9cfe870
|
A wizard salesman, Kromer switched on and demonstrated the range of speeds on any number of devices with a shame-dissolving forthrightness. At those moments, he thought of himself as a Conceptual Lesbian, a term he'd invented and never spoken aloud, nor advanced into any coherent definition. Kromer was fairly certain he'd never experienced an erection within the bounds of the shop.
|
|
sex-shop
sex-toys
passive
perversion
pervert
|
Jonathan Lethem |
|
96c859b
|
The answers hardly seemed of consequence. Not much did. I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.
|
|
life
looking-back
meaningless
passive
the-sense-of-an-ending
regret
|
Julian Barnes |