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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....”
― The Common Good
― The Common Good
“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.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Girls have always been told that their value is tied to their appearance; their accomplishments are always magnified if they're pretty and diminished if they're not. Even worse, some girls get the message that they can get through life relying on just their looks, and then they never develop their minds. [...]
Being pretty is fundamentally a passive quality; even what you work at it, you're working at being passive.”
― Stories of Your Life and Others
Being pretty is fundamentally a passive quality; even what you work at it, you're working at being passive.”
― Stories of Your Life and Others
“Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.”
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“Our world is full of submissive activities. Shopping is submissive. You wander around buying the things the controllers have placed in front of you. Watching TV is submissive. You watch fictional lives rather than live your own life. Playing video games is submissive. You sit there shooting up the world (in virtual reality), while having no impact at all on actual reality. It’s easy to be a virtual hero, hard to be a real one. One involves no work, and the other is as hard as it gets. Video games are an avoidance of the real world. Voting is submissive too – you delegate your authority to one of the puppets of the controllers. Dominants are active, not passive. They DO. They ACT. They MOVE. They CHOOSE. They DECIDE. They are NOT CONTROLLED by the system. They are FREE. So, what are you?”
― Christianity: The Devil's Greatest Trick
― Christianity: The Devil's Greatest Trick
“There’s no point in waiting for Godot. He never arrives. That’s the whole point. In Dante’s Limbo, the Ignavi are always waiting. Their crime in life was that they preferred to wait until everything was decided rather than commit themselves to a cause when its prospects were uncertain, and now they are condemned to wait forever in the vestibule of hell. Anyone can jump on a bandwagon. The heroes are those who got involved long before the bandwagon arrived. You have to find a cause and commit yourself fully. That’s the first step in giving meaning to your life”
― Inside-Dopesters and Conspiracy Theories
― Inside-Dopesters and Conspiracy Theories
“Don’t talk to me about the stuff of compromise and mediocrity and all other such travesties. For these are the things that we do so that we might never be born into the life into which we were born.”
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“Growth is an active process that is intentional, demands energy and determination; while death is passive and effortless demands nothing from us. However, they are both natural phenomena that we have to choose as they war against each other in our lives.”
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“Put an end to being so passive. It's time to begin standing in your power and saying exactly what you're implying. Nip this habit in the bud and check crossed boundaries at the door. This leaves no room for resentful or bottled-up emotions in your life.”
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“It's like we come into the world to wait for the hour of our death. And what we do while waiting appears to be the only thing that truly matters.”
― Stamerenophobia
― Stamerenophobia
“Finding people who can make a difference in the world is like panning for gold. A huge amount of detritus has to be sifted before the nuggets are found. Most of the gold comes in small grains, but now and again a great, gleaming 24 carat nugget appears – a world-historic figure who will change everything. What’s it all about? INTELLIGENCE. DISCIPLINE. AMBITION. CAPABILITY. TALENT. DETERMINATION. Those are the qualities needed. It’s not about what the world can do for you. It’s about what you can do for the world. So, what can you do? Anything? Those who can, do. Those that can’t go on forums and discuss conspiracy theories.”
― The Disproof of Christianity
― The Disproof of Christianity
“Destiny has called you to be a god. Are you hero enough for the task? Will you switch on your inner “hero program”, or slink off to the shopping mall or the sports stadium and put it off for yet another day? Maybe you’ll take in a movie. So much easier to watch others doing the heavy lifting, and the actors are just faking it anyway. Where are the real heroes? Where are YOU?!”
― How to Become a Hero
― How to Become a Hero
“Ultimately, the only people who make a difference are specific individuals – the ones capable of getting off their ass and doing something incredibly creative. Those are the only people to whom we have anything to say. What do the rest matter? They are irrelevant.”
― The Omega Point
― The Omega Point
“Well, then, are you passive or active? What are you doing about this life of your and this world? What’s your cause? Is it profane or sacred? Are you for yourself or for a great new vision of what humanity could be?”
― World, Overworld, Underworld, Dreamworld
― World, Overworld, Underworld, Dreamworld
“We are life’s bystanders. We are the cheering crowds who greet the great generals enjoying their Roman Triumphs. Is that all you want your life to be? – the faceless guy in the crowd applauding the elite? Why don’t you get rid of these people and enjoy your own triumphs?”
― Character Wars: America's Failing Character
― Character Wars: America's Failing Character
“If you can do something with your life, do it. Don’t talk about it. Why are you waiting for permission? There are far too many people who talk the talk (and believe their own Mythos), and far too few who walk the walk (and actually change the world).”
― Magic, Matter and Qualia
― Magic, Matter and Qualia
“No movement can succeed if it is populated by the half-hearted, the weak-willed, those who can always find other things to do with their time, whose priority is always themselves. These are the Ignavi. Go and be a liability to someone else. Hyperianism wants the finest, not the worst. If you can’t be serious about committing to something, don’t bother. Just go back to bed and let the world pass you by.”
― Take Them to the Morgue
― Take Them to the Morgue
“Sometimes I think that we need a war to wake us up. And now that we’ve got one, don’t be so foolish as to roll over and hit the snooze button.”
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“Though, strictly speaking, there can be no absolutely passive reading, many people think that, as compared with writing and speaking, which are obviously active understankings, reading and listening are entirely passive. The writer or speaker must put out some effort, but no work need be done by the reader or listener. Reading and listening are though of as receiving communication from someone who is actively engaged in giving or sending it. The mistake here is to suppose that receiving communication is like receiving a blow or a legacy or a judgment from the court. On the contrary, the reader or listener is much more like the catcher in a game of baseball.”
― How to Read a Book: The Art of Getting a Liberal Education
― How to Read a Book: The Art of Getting a Liberal Education
“Majesty refuses the passive appeasement liberally bred by lesser things. Rather, majesty is brazenly audacious in a manner entirely dangerous but indomitable safe. Majesty calls us out to places that we cannot control and experiences that we cannot predict. It rails against the sedentary propensities of our dull humanity and rallies us to a greatness inherent in our design but squashed by our fears. It offers us an experience beyond ourselves that always existed within ourselves. And to forfeit such a great thing is to die on the catacombs of lesser things.”
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“If there was one thing that Alice felt like she'd done wrong, it was being too passive.”
― This Time Tomorrow
― This Time Tomorrow
“Apathy is the act of depositing ideas into a bank of knowledge from which nothing is ever withdrawn.”
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