Passive Quotes

429 quotes by 361 authors

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails. — Meshell Ndegeocello
To be silent is to be passive. — Octavia Spencer
People are unhappy because they don't understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble, excited, passive -… — Frederick Lenz
Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they… — Derek Bok
Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the… — Arthur C. Clarke
Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation. — Raymond Arroyo
Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession. — Bill Ayers
I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field… — Tim Ferriss
New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression. — Daniel Gillies
Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are… — Asghar Farhadi
We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into… — Stephen Jay Gould
Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency… — Katherine Helmond
We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make… — Glenn Greenwald
The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself. — Tullian Tchividjian
But ... the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies â€” those days are over. — Benjamin Netanyahu
Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you… — Jeanette Winterson
My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income...passive… — Robert Kiyosaki
We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I donâ€™t see how we can bring about change… — Rebecca MacKinnon
A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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