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Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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@Npars01
Resonates & has a lot of explanatory power: “ The fetishization of "heroes" in American culture has always been cognitively dissonant.” ☹️
A striking but dissonant feature of US culture, as you say. 🤔
Makes what Paul writes all the more important. -
@Npars01
Resonates & has a lot of explanatory power: “ The fetishization of "heroes" in American culture has always been cognitively dissonant.” ☹️
A striking but dissonant feature of US culture, as you say. 🤔
Makes what Paul writes all the more important. -
@Npars01
Resonates & has a lot of explanatory power: “ The fetishization of "heroes" in American culture has always been cognitively dissonant.” ☹️
A striking but dissonant feature of US culture, as you say. 🤔
Makes what Paul writes all the more important. -
@Npars01
Resonates & has a lot of explanatory power: “ The fetishization of "heroes" in American culture has always been cognitively dissonant.” ☹️
A striking but dissonant feature of US culture, as you say. 🤔
Makes what Paul writes all the more important. -
@Npars01
Resonates & has a lot of explanatory power: “ The fetishization of "heroes" in American culture has always been cognitively dissonant.” ☹️
A striking but dissonant feature of US culture, as you say. 🤔
Makes what Paul writes all the more important. -
A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
[Ἀδικεῖ πολλάκις ὁ μὴ ποιῶν τι, οὐ μόνον ὁ ποιῶν τι.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 9, ch. 5 (9.5) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2572…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #injustice #injury #harm #action #deed #evil #inaction #meme #passivity #sin #sinofomission #works
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
[Ἀδικεῖ πολλάκις ὁ μὴ ποιῶν τι, οὐ μόνον ὁ ποιῶν τι.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 9, ch. 5 (9.5) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2572…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #injustice #injury #harm #action #deed #evil #inaction #meme #passivity #sin #sinofomission #works
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
[Ἀδικεῖ πολλάκις ὁ μὴ ποιῶν τι, οὐ μόνον ὁ ποιῶν τι.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 9, ch. 5 (9.5) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2572…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #injustice #injury #harm #action #deed #evil #inaction #meme #passivity #sin #sinofomission #works
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
[Ἀδικεῖ πολλάκις ὁ μὴ ποιῶν τι, οὐ μόνον ὁ ποιῶν τι.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 9, ch. 5 (9.5) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2572…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #injustice #injury #harm #action #deed #evil #inaction #meme #passivity #sin #sinofomission #works
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Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television
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Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television
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Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television
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Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television
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Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television
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The Copenhagen Trap: How the West made passivity the only safe strategy
https://aliveness.kunnas.com/articles/copenhagen-trap
#HackerNews #CopenhagenTrap #WestStrategy #Passivity #SocialCommentary #AlivenessInsights
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The Copenhagen Trap: How the West made passivity the only safe strategy
https://aliveness.kunnas.com/articles/copenhagen-trap
#HackerNews #CopenhagenTrap #WestStrategy #Passivity #SocialCommentary #AlivenessInsights
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The Copenhagen Trap: How the West made passivity the only safe strategy
https://aliveness.kunnas.com/articles/copenhagen-trap
#HackerNews #CopenhagenTrap #WestStrategy #Passivity #SocialCommentary #AlivenessInsights
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The Copenhagen Trap: How the West made passivity the only safe strategy
https://aliveness.kunnas.com/articles/copenhagen-trap
#HackerNews #CopenhagenTrap #WestStrategy #Passivity #SocialCommentary #AlivenessInsights
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The Copenhagen Trap: How the West made passivity the only safe strategy
https://aliveness.kunnas.com/articles/copenhagen-trap
#HackerNews #CopenhagenTrap #WestStrategy #Passivity #SocialCommentary #AlivenessInsights
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A quotation from Aldous Huxley
States function as smoothly as they do, because the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
Essay (1927-10), “A Note on Eugenics,” Proper Studies (1927)More info about this quote: wist.info/huxley-aldous/79966/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aldoushuxley #eugenics #humancondition #humannature #materialist #obedience #passivity #people #population #servitude
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A quotation from Aldous Huxley
States function as smoothly as they do, because the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
Essay (1927-10), “A Note on Eugenics,” Proper Studies (1927)More info about this quote: wist.info/huxley-aldous/79966/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aldoushuxley #eugenics #humancondition #humannature #materialist #obedience #passivity #people #population #servitude
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A quotation from Aldous Huxley
States function as smoothly as they do, because the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
Essay (1927-10), “A Note on Eugenics,” Proper Studies (1927)More info about this quote: wist.info/huxley-aldous/79966/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aldoushuxley #eugenics #humancondition #humannature #materialist #obedience #passivity #people #population #servitude
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A quotation from Aldous Huxley
States function as smoothly as they do, because the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
Essay (1927-10), “A Note on Eugenics,” Proper Studies (1927)More info about this quote: wist.info/huxley-aldous/79966/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aldoushuxley #eugenics #humancondition #humannature #materialist #obedience #passivity #people #population #servitude
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1943-08-13), “My Day”Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/27…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #bystander #disinterest #evil #injustice #karma #neutrality #passivity #standingby #uninvolvement #wrongdoing #complicity #acquiescence
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1943-08-13), “My Day”Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/27…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #bystander #disinterest #evil #injustice #karma #neutrality #passivity #standingby #uninvolvement #wrongdoing #complicity #acquiescence
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1943-08-13), “My Day”Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/27…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #bystander #disinterest #evil #injustice #karma #neutrality #passivity #standingby #uninvolvement #wrongdoing #complicity #acquiescence
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1943-08-13), “My Day”Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/27…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #bystander #disinterest #evil #injustice #karma #neutrality #passivity #standingby #uninvolvement #wrongdoing #complicity #acquiescence
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1943-08-13), “My Day”Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/27…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #bystander #disinterest #evil #injustice #karma #neutrality #passivity #standingby #uninvolvement #wrongdoing #complicity #acquiescence
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He won over the ignorant masses with shows, building projects, largesses, and banquets. His followers he bound to him by rewards, his opponents by an apparent clemency. In short, he succeeded in bringing a free country, partly because of its fear, partly because of its passivity, to an acceptance of servitude.
[Muneribus, monumentis, congiariis, epulis multitudinem imperitam delenierat; suos praemiis, adversarios clementiae specie devinxerat. Quid multa? Attulerat iam liberae civitati partim metu partim patientia consuetudinem serviendi.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 45 / sec. 116 (2.45/2.116) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. Berry (2006)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #juliuscaesar #acquiescence #breadandcircuses #freedom #masses #passivity #politicalpower #populace #power #rewards #servitude
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He won over the ignorant masses with shows, building projects, largesses, and banquets. His followers he bound to him by rewards, his opponents by an apparent clemency. In short, he succeeded in bringing a free country, partly because of its fear, partly because of its passivity, to an acceptance of servitude.
[Muneribus, monumentis, congiariis, epulis multitudinem imperitam delenierat; suos praemiis, adversarios clementiae specie devinxerat. Quid multa? Attulerat iam liberae civitati partim metu partim patientia consuetudinem serviendi.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 45 / sec. 116 (2.45/2.116) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. Berry (2006)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #juliuscaesar #acquiescence #breadandcircuses #freedom #masses #passivity #politicalpower #populace #power #rewards #servitude
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He won over the ignorant masses with shows, building projects, largesses, and banquets. His followers he bound to him by rewards, his opponents by an apparent clemency. In short, he succeeded in bringing a free country, partly because of its fear, partly because of its passivity, to an acceptance of servitude.
[Muneribus, monumentis, congiariis, epulis multitudinem imperitam delenierat; suos praemiis, adversarios clementiae specie devinxerat. Quid multa? Attulerat iam liberae civitati partim metu partim patientia consuetudinem serviendi.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 45 / sec. 116 (2.45/2.116) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. Berry (2006)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #juliuscaesar #acquiescence #breadandcircuses #freedom #masses #passivity #politicalpower #populace #power #rewards #servitude
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“We’ve made some updates to our Terms of Service. No action is needed by you.”
“Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain!”
#PassiveConsumption #Passivity #Tech #SocialMedia #Internet #Capitalism #CapitalismKills
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“We’ve made some updates to our Terms of Service. No action is needed by you.”
“Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain!”
#PassiveConsumption #Passivity #Tech #SocialMedia #Internet #Capitalism #CapitalismKills
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“We’ve made some updates to our Terms of Service. No action is needed by you.”
“Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain!”
#PassiveConsumption #Passivity #Tech #SocialMedia #Internet #Capitalism #CapitalismKills
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Growth does not occur within the confines of constant agreement and obedience. Growth comes with purpose, not passivity. #Growth with Narghiza Ergashova
#Agreement, #Confines, #Growth, #Obedience, #Passivity, #Purpose
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Growth does not occur within the confines of constant agreement and obedience.
Growth comes with purpose, not passivity. #Growth
[https://mastodon.social/tags/Growth] with Narghiza Ergashova#Agreement [https://mastodon.social/tags/Agreement], #Confines
[https://mastodon.social/tags/Confines], #Growth
[https://mastodon.social/tags/Growth], #Obedience
[https://mastodon.social/tags/Obedience], #Passivity
[https://mastodon.social/tags/Passivity], #Purpose
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However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some bit of wisdom, or folly, or, as it often happens, in both at once, are but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a passivity, which, if it were the outcome of reasoning, would resemble philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, and yet is hardly conscious of it one’s self. It always ends, it is true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look on at the game with indifference.
[Du reste, comme nous venons de l’indiquer, les cerveaux absorbés dans une sagesse, ou dans une folie, ou, ce qui arrive souvent, dans les deux à la fois, ne sont que très lentement perméables aux choses de la vie. Leur propre destin leur est lointain. Il résulte de ces concentrations-là une passivité qui, si elle était raisonnée, ressemblerait à la philosophie. On décline, on descend, on s’écoule, on s’écroule même, sans trop s’en apercevoir. Cela finit toujours, il est vrai, par un réveil, mais tardif. En attendant, il semble qu’on soit neutre dans le jeu qui se joue entre notre bonheur et notre malheur. On est l’enjeu, et l’on regarde la partie avec indifférence.]Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 3 “Marius,” Book 5 “The Excellence of Misfortune,” ch. 4 (3.5.4) (1862) [tr. Hapgood (1887)]Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/74854/
#quote #quotes #quotation #acquiescence #decline #detachment #deterioration #distancing #fortune #happiness #living #matters #passivity #problems #unhappiness
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Growth does not occur within the confines of constant agreement and obedience. Growth comes with purpose, not passivity. #Growth with Narghiza Ergashova
#Agreement, #Confines, #Growth, #Obedience, #Passivity, #Purpose
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A quotation from Roosevelt, Theodore:
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There is nothing to be done with that type of citizen of whom all that can be said is that he is harmless. Virtue which is dependent upon a sluggish circulation is not impressive. There is little place in active life for the timid good man.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/72999/#quote #quotes #quotation #action #activist #citizen #harmlessness #passivity #timidity #virtue
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A quotation from Roosevelt, Theodore:
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There is nothing to be done with that type of citizen of whom all that can be said is that he is harmless. Virtue which is dependent upon a sluggish circulation is not impressive. There is little place in active life for the timid good man.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/72999/#quote #quotes #quotation #action #activist #citizen #harmlessness #passivity #timidity #virtue
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A quotation from Roosevelt, Theodore:
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There is nothing to be done with that type of citizen of whom all that can be said is that he is harmless. Virtue which is dependent upon a sluggish circulation is not impressive. There is little place in active life for the timid good man.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/72999/#quote #quotes #quotation #action #activist #citizen #harmlessness #passivity #timidity #virtue
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A quotation from Roosevelt, Theodore:
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There is nothing to be done with that type of citizen of whom all that can be said is that he is harmless. Virtue which is dependent upon a sluggish circulation is not impressive. There is little place in active life for the timid good man.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/72999/#quote #quotes #quotation #action #activist #citizen #harmlessness #passivity #timidity #virtue
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A quotation from Roosevelt, Theodore:
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There is nothing to be done with that type of citizen of whom all that can be said is that he is harmless. Virtue which is dependent upon a sluggish circulation is not impressive. There is little place in active life for the timid good man.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/72999/#quote #quotes #quotation #action #activist #citizen #harmlessness #passivity #timidity #virtue
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A quotation from Bible, vol. 2, New Testament:
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Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, commits sin.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/bible-nt/25598/#quote #quotes #quotation #action #activity #Christianity #doinggood #good #gooddeed #passivity #sin #works
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A quotation from Bible, vol. 2, New Testament:
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Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, commits sin.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/bible-nt/25598/#quote #quotes #quotation #action #activity #Christianity #doinggood #good #gooddeed #passivity #sin #works