Passive Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

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.

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.

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.