Passive Quotes

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."

The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

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 which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

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 know that person any more.

It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.

In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.

It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.