Passive Quotes

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.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

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.

Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

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.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

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.