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Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.
— Stefan Molyneux
It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.
— Frederica Mathewes-Green
My faith is a tool I employ, a metaphorical context I find apt, but it is inert until placed in a hand that needs it.
— Thomm Quackenbush
The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.
— Bradley Chicho
Can nothing be done for freedom because the public conscience is inert?
— William H. Seward
We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.
— George Steiner
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.
— Stanley Fish
inert and seemingly lifeless.
— Barbara Taylor Bradford
I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.
— Fran Lebowitz
95% of the people who walk the earth are inert, Johnny. 1% are saints, and 1% are assholes. The other 3% do what they say they can do.
— Stephen King
Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.
— Shoshana Zuboff
The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.
— Robertson Davies
The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.
— Siri Hustvedt
Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
— Henry Adams
A man must be very inert to have no character at all.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.
— Clifton Fadiman
I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals & speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence & there is no psychic drain
— Anton Szandor LaVey
And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?
— Julien Gracq
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.
— Arthur Koestler
Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.
— Marcus Aurelius
Evil is not good's absence but gravity'severlasting bedrock and its fatal chains
inert, violent, the suffrage of our days. — Geoffrey Hill
It is by avoiding the rapid decay into the inert state of 'equilibrium' that an organism appears so enigmatic;
— Erwin Schrodinger
Imagination, thought, may be admirable mechanisms but they can also be inert. Suffering alone sets them going.
— Marcel Proust
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time ... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
— Shirley Chisholm
He seemed to believe that from such humble, inert elements as flour, shortening, and drab little envelopes of yeast, life itself could be produced.
— Michael Cunningham
DNA is, as it were, especially unalive. It is among the most nonreactive, chemically inert molecules in the living world,
— Bill Bryson
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
— Salvatore Quasimodo
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
— David James Duncan
man as he really is, inert, sluggish, and averse from labour, unless compelled by necessity
— Thomas Robert Malthus
