Passive Quotes

429 quotes by 370 authors

Iâ€™m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel… — Stephen King
In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die. — Gregory Benford
White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background. — Jan Tschichold
Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time. — Diane Ravitch
It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of her… — Germaine Greer
You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment. — Jean Houston
Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all… — Julian Assange
Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy. For women… — Sheila Jeffreys
We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our… — Antonio Damasio
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a… — Woody Allen
If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information… — Paul Lockhart
The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than attack. But defense… — Carl von Clausewitz
The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in… — Paulo Freire
I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what… — Marilyn vos Savant
Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul. — Gary Zukav
Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all. — Arthur Adamov
For me, a muse is someone who looks glamorous but is quite passive, whereas I was very hard-working. I worked from 9am to sometimes 9pm,… — Loulou de la Falaise
Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure… — Czeslaw Milosz
In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a motherâ€™s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and… — Charlotte Mason
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward… — Chauncey Wright

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