Passive Quotes

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.