Passive Quotes

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 all right of private judgment is then denied.

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

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 the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

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

I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.

A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.

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.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.

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

The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.

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

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