Passive Quotes

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

We talk to each other in code. We said that 420 was a special number. It was a time. It was a date. It was a symbol for what we did for passive resistance.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.

After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change.

The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.so, peaceful suffering and passive resistance and all of that stuff is all right maybe in India somewhere, where the people in India outnumber the whites - about a million to one.But here in America, when you tell that's like an elephant sitting down on a - on a mouse in India with [Mahatma] Gandhi.

I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

To be silent is to be passive.

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

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

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. And don't start a sentence with a conjugation.

Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation.

Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver. After all, it exists for a reason.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that.

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.

I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.

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