“In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.” HumansWellsTwoCharacterMightHuman BeingsAcceptingClassMankindOffersNegativeInstinctActiveSignificantHostGuestsPassiveHospitality Book:And Even Now Source: And Even Now
“Every social need, such as the need for friendship, must be a party to its own satisfaction: I cannot passively find my friend as a ready-made friend; a ready-made human being he may be, but his friendship for me I must help to create by my own active resolve.” NeedsHumansMayMadeHelpingSocialMy OwnHuman BeingsPartyReadyMy FriendsSatisfactionActiveResolve Book:The Meaning of God in Human Experience Source: The Meaning of God in Human Experience
“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.” WayMindHumansLongDifferentLife IsHuman BeingsGoes OnActiveFinishedOccasionsHuman LifeFulfillmentDifferent ThingsExpectingDiverseRelievedDifferent TimesLife Goes OnFrame Of MindExpectancy Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.” ThinkingWayHumansMeanDoeWarDifficultUnderstandingHuman BeingsViolenceActiveObligationResistanceTemptationAggressiveMistakenInjuredNon ViolenceVigilancePrerogative Author:Judith Butler