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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....
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acceptable-opinion
lively-debate
obedient
limit
passive
debate
opinion
control
passivity
obedience
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Noam Chomsky |
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You can't be neutral on a moving train.
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history
neutrality
indifference
passivity
justice
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Howard Zinn |
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The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.
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conventionalism
passivity
creativity
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Robert Greene |
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The 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.
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writer
writing
passivity
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Anaïs Nin |
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Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.
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cuba
passivity
government
revolution
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Tom Robbins |
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a11e808
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In a dependent relationship, the protege can always control the protector by threatening to collapse.
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learned-helplessness
manipulation
passivity
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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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.
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world
passivity
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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I have always been aware that human life is dream-like because most human beings exist passively. Their consciousness is little more than a reflection of their environment. In the sexual orgasm, the voltage power of their minds surges, and they become momentarily aware that they are not forty-watt bulbs, but two hundred and fifty, five hundred, a thousand... Then the voltage drops, and they sink back to forty watts without a protest. They are like empty-headed fools who cannot remember anything for more than a few seconds. Human beings are so mediocre that they can scarcely be said to possess minds in any real sense. In a flash, I understood the absurd and obvious truth: nothing is worth possessing except intensity of consciousness. This is the truth we glimpse in the orgasm.
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orgasm
passivity
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Colin Wilson |
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Tolerance is a virtue, but tolerance coupled with passivity is a vice.
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intolerance
tolerance
passivity
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Chris Hedges |
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Fate represents the fulfillment of man's expectations of himself.
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passivity
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Barbara W. Tuchman |