Passive Quotes

429 quotes by 361 authors

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't… — Gwen Stefani
You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value… — James Surowiecki
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all. — Tacitus
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives… — Dorothy Thompson
Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness. — Eckhart Tolle
I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy… — Linus Torvalds
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. — Elie Wiesel
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. — Mao Zedong
The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for… — Geoff Mulgan
Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of… — Tullian Tchividjian
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval… — Joan Didion
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather… — John Stuart Mill
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between. — Sylvia Plath
So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, â€” What is truth?… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that… — Noam Chomsky
I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin… — Howard Zinn
We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this… — Carolyn Heilbrun
When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate,… — Diablo Cody
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive. — Michael Pollan
We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come… — Marianne Williamson

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