But progress, not quietism, is the principle which governs humanity and it is favoured by events of most different nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Staying quiet in the face of political strife is the reigning philosophy in Najaf and is known as quietism, or taquia, in Arabic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

There is something to be said for the ' quietism ' of the Buddhist approach to the question of the Divine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science, Idolatry, and Anthropomorphism] Reference

This is neither quietism nor epistemic humility on Reid's part.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reid on Memory and Personal Identity] Reference

And this system of female non-education or quietism still prevails.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flatland: a romance of many dimensions] Reference

It is the way of quietism, of willed obscurity, of inner emigration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of a Bad Year] Reference

Without wasting too much time here, I stand by my quietism critique.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Joseph's Abbey, Spencer, MA] Reference

The Lathe of Heaven is a Taoist parable about the virtue of quietism.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Antithetical to Religion?] Reference

The doctrine of quietism and indifference to joy has no place in the ethic of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference

But Brissenden was not a disciple of quietism, and he changed his attitude abruptly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 39] Reference

That is the distinction I meant to draw between quietism not passivity and activism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Google Fight! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

But that is quietism, or anti-any kind of-activism; not anti-other-philosophies per se.    From Wordnik.com.  [Google Fight! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

On the other hand, political action was a blind-alley leading to reformism and quietism.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER XIV] Reference

I shall be charged with mysticism, Behmenism, quietism, &c., but THAT shall not alarm me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions of an English Opium-Eater] Reference

One is that any pleasure in the actual process of life encourages a sort of political quietism.    From Wordnik.com.  [george orwell | some thoughts on the common toad « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference

But theory is never innocent, and the New Criticism slotted in nicely with the quietism of the age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saying Something] Reference

To the extent that this knowledge leads to quietism, I demonstrate my belief in my deep first principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Us Jews are sooooo cool] Reference

Sectarian quietism and withdrawal were also rejected in favor of the revolutionary activism of a mass movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Russia and — together with ideas of mysticism, quietism, and romanticism — influenced Tsar Alexander I; the.    From Wordnik.com.  [CONSERVATISM] Reference

The real pessimism is quietism - not doing anything because nothing can be changed, argues Bauman: Why do I write books?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zygmunt Bauman and 'The poor will always be with us'] Reference

The real pessimism is quietism – not doing anything because nothing can be changed, argues Bauman: Why do I write books?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zygmunt Bauman and ‘The poor will always be with us’ « Gerry Canavan] Reference

But if he would not so participate, his leftist reincarnation comes to no more than a cover for an all-too-familiar quietism.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Exchange on the Left] Reference

It just seems to me that from within an anarchist framework the only two political solutions are total revolution or quietism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metropolitan secession] Reference

Discouraging such an approach to art and literature was what New Criticism, in all of its quietism, was itself finally all about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saying Something] Reference

The Taoist theory of prolonging life by quietism and dispassionateness, by regulating one's breath, and using medicines is untenable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lunheng] Reference

Apparently identifying the concept of an inevi - table and irresistible fate with Buddhism, he rejected its implied quietism and pessimism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Photown News] Reference

With your quietism, one could live happily for a hundred years at least.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idiot] Reference

Slide 129: quietism 1798 1789 1794 1789 Dr. Price 1791 20 1790 40 Mantoux.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

"Certainly that isn't much like quietism," murmured Alexandra, half to herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idiot] Reference

He resisted as a temptation the philosophic quietism which had been his strength and his pride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Friend the Charlatan] Reference