Active Quote by Mary Roberts Rinehart

“A leader must lead. Where others see obstacles, he must see opportunities. When others see problems, he must see possibilities ... Civilization is not…

— David J. Vaughan

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

“To make peace is not a passive endeavor, but rather an activist mindset that works toward the end of conflict. In our world, it…

— Dillon Burroughs

We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the…

— Mary Parker Follett

The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when ones button…

— T.F. Hodge

Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life,…

— Emma Goldman

Indeed, the term body (jism), organs ('arad), extent (mutahayyiz) and their like are all newly-invented terminologies. We have mentioned many a time before that…

— Ibn Taymiyyah

Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it…

— Karl Marx

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man is imperfection.…

— Norman Cousins

Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual life. What…

— Sun Myung Moon

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and…

— James Thurber

Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.

— Emile Zola