„It is the misfortune of active men that their activity is almost always a bit irrational. For example, one must not inquire of the money-gathering banker what the purpose for his restless activity is: it is irrational. Active people roll like a stone, conforming to the stupidity of mechanics.“

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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„Main deficiency of active people. Active men are usually lacking in higher activity--I mean individual activity. They are active as officials, businessmen, scholars, that is, as generic beings, but not as quite particular, single and unique men. In this respect they are lazy.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.“
— Margaret Mead
„People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.“
— Albert Einstein
„This struggle must be organised, according to “all the rules of the art”, by people who are professionally engaged in revolutionary activity.“
— Vladimir Lenin
„Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity.“
— Andrea Dworkin
„Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results and specific content, could this activity be among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing?“
— Hannah Arendt
„The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.“
— James Baldwin
„A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.“
— Linus Torvalds