Word: quietism
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...notion of defending to the death the rights of swine to swinish, so long as they keep it verbal, is a notion which did very well for the period of English quietism in which it was most popular, but in rough times like the present it is too often an excuse for nonparticipation in public life. The common-garden myth of toleration goes about like this: permitted to express themselves, "extremists" "blow off steam," and are consequently less dangerous; the "extremes" neutralize each other in some way and serve as a means of locating the current Middle Ground, where...
...novelist (Darkness at Noon), and The Perennial Philosophy (TIME, Oct. 1) by Novelist Aldous Huxley (Antic Hay, Brave New World). Koestler's book was a series of essays; its theme: modern man is caught between the choice of a philosophy of action (The Commissar) and a philosophy of quietism (The Yogi). Man's hope: a synthesis of the two. Author Koestler was more optimistic than hopeful...
...only say that the girl Uldine was too young to catch the meaning of such lilting verses. To the Preacher Progress is futile, Effort ridiculous, Work leading but to the grave. Well might Utley-urged readers doubt whether so spirited a young lady would knowingly propagate this doctrine of Quietism, which all good U. S. citizens despise as encouraging to slothfulness and indolence; which is down right laziness and against the principles of business...