Passive Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

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.