Passive Behavior Quotes

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.

I don't like attacking.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

I never deny; I never contradict; I sometimes forget.

I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'

You can’t get intelligence by sitting and saying nothing.

The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

I don't do much. I'm too lazy. That's my problem. Hang around my couch, watching the TV. Just too lazy. I realized this the other day, I get hit my a truck tomorrow - a big truck could hit me - paralyze me from the neck down. Wouldn't effect my lifestyle a bit really.

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.

All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

If I'm brought the wrong order at a restaurant, I don't send it back, because I don't want the waiter to get mad at me.

Don't do anything to anyone, and people will not make trouble for you.

The ones who don't do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down.

Standing up here 10 in a row, you know, like a bunch of seals waiting for somebody to throw you the next fish, is not necessarily the best way to impart your information to the American people. I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.

Modern responses to Cinderella's predicament are interesting. If you're not careful, you'll think, "Well, she's just a big wimp. She should fight for her rights. She should call the government."

Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

...he who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.

Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.

Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?