Passive Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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."

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

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.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

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

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.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.