The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
There seems to be a passive alliance between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and that's unprecedented in its form and dangerous in… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Reading a good comic is a creative act. Watching a film is often a more passive experience, and since I'm interested in… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
The most disappointing thing to me after 'Tusk' was the politics in the band. They said, 'We're not going to do that… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism. — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical. — Harold Laski Copy Share Image
Among my greatest disappointments about the mutual fund industry - in addition to excessive costs and excessive focus on the short-term -… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment.… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Victims may be defensive, submissive, over-accommodating to others, passive-aggressive in conflict, dependent on others for self-worth, overly sensitive, even manipulative. They're often… — David Emerald Womeldorff Copy Share Image
Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you. — William DeWitt Hyde Copy Share Image
I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be… — Elsa Barker Copy Share Image
“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that… — Joe Tye Copy Share Image
