Passive Quotes

429 quotes by 370 authors

The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the… — Max Horkheimer
Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for… — Charles Hodge
In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive… — Tariq Ramadan
I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens, absorbed… — Shaun Tan
Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces… — Antonio Gramsci
I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing. — Kathy Acker
But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a… — Wendell Berry
I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and passive at His… — Thomas Chalmers
Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure, depressive, passive-aggressive, and… — Camille Paglia
Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and an attitude of… — George Sweeting
For the religious, passivism [i.e., objects are obedient to the laws of nature] provides a clear role of God as the author of the laws… — Brian Ellis
Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial, frivolous, demure, and… — Julia Serano
Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred — Bill Willingham
Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In… — Eric Van Lustbader
God is a synergetic experience. Science can never reveal it, philosophy can never come to it - only a poetic approach, a very passive, very… — Rajneesh
We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous… — Mary Parker Follett
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in… — John Ralston Saul
Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process. — Kurt Lewin
It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that… — Alfred Jarry

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