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“The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.”

Today Goes On Activity Threat Active Mask Urges Nothingness Passivity Pseudo

Book:Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism

Source: Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism

“I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an obscure but powerful impulse to active functioning. Life demands to be lived. Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy organism- in fact, it is almost impossible. Only the dying can be really idle.”

“The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.”

Firsts Force Gone Atheism Movement Goes On Positive Atheism Active Orthodox No Respect Free Thought New Knowledge

Book:The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography

Source: The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography

“Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon he is again placed on reconnaissance for expectancy; then he is again relieved, but as long as there is any future for him, he has not yet finished his service. And while human life goes on this way in very diverse expectancy, expecting very different things according to different times and occasions and in different frames of mind, all life is again one nightwatch of expectancy.”

“People who were not active in the intellectual life of the country could go on without feeling restricted, except they could not go where they wanted. They could not cross the border to the West whenever they liked.”

People Country Feelings Wanted Goes On Intellectual Crosses West Active Borders Intellectual Life

Author:Stefan Heym

“Off they go on this sort of camping trip to Iwo Jima, where they're taken around and shown where all the battles took place. It's very moving. Disgusting little island, though. Still an active volcano. Stinks of sulfur. There are dead Japanese everywhere under that island. It's icky. But I knew I would never have another chance to go, so I took the job.”

Littles Stills Jobs Moving Chance Taken Goes On Battle Active Islands Disgusting Stink Camping Volcanoes Another Chance Very Moving Sulfur Iwo Jima

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Men are the ones who often juggle back and forth for power. It is the women who bring humanity to the table - an understanding that beyond the jobs that men are fighting for, there are people out there really waiting for you to do something for life to go on. The only way all of this can happen effectively is if women are at the table as active participants, not as silent observers.”

People Ifs Men Way Happens Jobs Humanity Fighting Waiting Understanding Goes On Tables Silent Active Observers Back And Forth Participants Waiting For You

Author:Leymah Gbowee