Quietism Quotes

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism. (Terry Eagleton)
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. View quote
Dorothy Thompson
Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all. View quote
Thomas Mann
" many on the right confuse the "is" of globalization with the "ought" of simply accepting all its effects. They preach a political quietism that is really just a cloak for greed. View quote
Bob Rae
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. View quote
Dorothy Thompson
Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it. View quote
George Orwell
True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations : quietism on the one hand, and spiritual fuss upon the other. View quote
Evelyn Underhill
Quietism is the attitude of people who say, "let others do what I cannot do." The doctrine I am presenting before you is precisely the opposite of this, since it declares that there is no reality except in action. It goes further, indeed, and adds, "Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is." Hence we can well understand why some people are horrified by our teaching. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre