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Active Evil is better than Passive Good. -- William Blake
Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all. -- Arthur Adamov
Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity -- Yatin Patel
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. -- Edith Hamilton
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy. -- Karl Liebknecht
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong. -- Ronald Reagan
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive. -- Jimmy Rollins
Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency. -- George C. Marshall
Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest. -- Kenneth Kaunda
Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical. -- Tullian Tchividjian
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.' -- Daniel J. Boorstin
A Garden Is Not Passive. It has its own way of responding to your involvement and commitment to it. When you walk into a garden, you know whether it is loved or not. -- Hazel Hawke
Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process. -- Kurt Lewin
Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box. -- Tim Ferriss
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between. -- Sylvia Plath
Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration. -- Nhat Hanh
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.... -- Noam Chomsky
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter. -- Bertrand Russell
The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action. -- Ayn Rand
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome. -- Noam Chomsky
Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us. -- Jerry Bridges
To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather being constant in prayer-knowing and taking, knowing and understanding that he that is faithful is not given a burden beyond that he is able to bear . . . -- Edgar Cayce
Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true. -- Eve Ensler
After approximately two decades and several billion dollars....Among the various types of cancer that account for 78% of the incidence..the upward trend in survival rates has not exceeded a few %....a far gloomier picture than has been generally conveyed to a hopeful public by our leading cancer research institutions...A generally passive lay press has been the means of transmission. -- Daniel S. Greenberg
After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change. -- Ram Dass
I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers. -- Howard Zinn
The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality. -- Wendell Berry
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. -- Mao Zedong
Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive. -- Alan Rickman
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out. -- Paul Mooney
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive. -- William Bernbach
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all. -- Tacitus
Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate. -- Jason Silva
Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness. -- Eckhart Tolle
I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing. -- Tim Ferriss
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. -- Gwen Stefani
Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions. -- Derek Bok
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. -- Charles Hodge
The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration. -- Steven Pinker
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. -- John Lydon
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. -- Peter Hammill
The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen. -- Geoff Mulgan
I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. -- Linus Torvalds
Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls. -- Inga Muscio
I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. -- Bill Gates
Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine. -- Asghar Farhadi
After costs, only the top 3% of managers produce a return that indicates they have sufficient skill to just cover their costs, which means that going forward, and despite extraordinary past returns, even the top performers are expected to be only as good as a low-cost passive index fund. The other 97% can be expected to do worse. -- Eugene Fama
Guilt loves the passive. -- Jonathan Price
This is passive-aggression in action. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Privacy is not for the passive. -- Jeffrey Rosen
To be silent is to be passive. -- Octavia Spencer
All genuine learning is active, not passive. -- Mortimer Adler
Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style. -- Mayim Bialik
McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity. -- John Ralston Saul
TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation. -- Raymond Arroyo
Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation. -- Ravi Ravindra
For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive. -- John Lydon
Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness. -- Maureen Murdock
Fear only the warm embrace of passive stupidity. -- Guy P. Harrison
There's no such thing as a passive audience. -- Chip Heath
Be an active reader; not a passive reader. -- Angelo Quiamco
Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive. -- Marc Morial
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. -- Claude Bernard
Healing requires taking action-it is not a passive event. -- Caroline Myss
Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive. -- Rich Lowry
I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity. -- Virginia Woolf
Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. -- L. Tom Perry
Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance. -- Herman Melville
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science. -- Claude Bernard
Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction). -- Deepak Chopra
There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency. -- Marilyn French
Inspiration is not purely passive, but does favor the prepared mind. -- Scott Barry Kaufman
Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance. -- Al Sharpton
You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses. -- T. Harv Eker
Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses -- Deborah Day
Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred -- Bill Willingham
I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination. -- Courteney Cox
Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses. -- Deborah Day
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive. -- Paul Mooney
My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive. -- Tyler Perry
Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude. -- Joyce Meyer
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside. -- Tom Peters
A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical. -- Harold Laski
I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become. -- Anne Sweeney
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human. -- Robin Morgan
Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people. -- Bryant McGill
The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive. -- Robert Greene
The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive. -- James Kelman
Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive. -- John Keats
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. -- Christopher Isherwood
For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing. -- Danny Boyle
I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me. -- Emraan Hashmi
White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background. -- Jan Tschichold
Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation. -- Studs Terkel
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. -- Gero Miesenbock
Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best -- Ela Bhatt
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Men and women who possesses drive record more increase than those who are passive -- Sunday Adelaja
The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion. -- Ryan Lilly
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. -- Sylvia Plath
Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive. -- Nawal El Saadawi
Dating a white girl is like dating a black girl if she were really passive-agressive. -- Dov Davidoff
Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded. -- Julian Assange
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. -- Hermann Ebbinghaus
Kaeleigh, queen of passive, all the time saying no, but not strong enough to mean it. -- Ellen Hopkins
We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith. -- Abraham Kuyper
The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end. -- Bryant McGill
You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position. -- Grigory Sanakoev

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