Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

“Passive...Aggressive...Pussy.”

— Brian Azzarello

So many people are passive participants in their very short time of having a consciousness, and those who aren't inspire me. Like Malala Yousafzai…

— Dylan Gelulla

For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.

— Gero Miesenbock

Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is…

— Learned Hand

“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word…

— William Zinsser

The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.

— Chris Sacca

“A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she…

— Martha Stout

You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You…

— Tommy McCarthy

People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

This is passive-aggression in action.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs…

— William Blake

Active questions are the alternative to passive questions. There is a huge difference between, 'Do you have clear goals?' and 'Did you do your…

— Marshall Goldsmith

You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you…

— James Surowiecki

Privacy is not for the passive.

— Jeffrey Rosen

And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but…

— Veronica Roth