Passive Quotes

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers.

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.

Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive.

You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

Privacy is not for the passive.

Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.

For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.

I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.

Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.

I am impressed and distressed at how passive hierarchical organizations make people. There's often a lot of overt activity, but it's not going anywhere, it's game-playing. It's play-acting at work.

It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea.

Im a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I dont like passive good guys.

If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.

You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.

Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.

I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington.

A model wears clothes and looks good, which is very passive. It's not like a musician promoting a new album. You don't have to read about it.

God is a synergetic experience. Science can never reveal it, philosophy can never come to it - only a poetic approach, a very passive, very loving approach, can.

TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation.

We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don’t see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don’t take responsibility.

Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.

The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.

Every candidate has passive support. It's just people that are gonna vote for him no matter what.

When the mind is in a passive and receptive state, absolutely still and in silence, the Essence or Buddhata is liberated from the mind, and ecstasy arrives.

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.

Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.

Many dog owners believe that as much as 60 percent of their pet's brain is set aside solely to demonstrate applications of the verb "to eat"-in both the active and passive forms.

Rock 'n' roll is a participatory sport. It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock 'n' roll and dance and have fun.

Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that.

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'

Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.

Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you.

The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority.

Active evil is better than passive good

Passive-Aggressive behavior consumes unnecessary time and resources. Say what you mean, let's resolve the issue, and move on to more productive tasks.

It is what it is because you let it be so.

Passive aggressive behavior is counter productive. Communication is key to a healthy personal and work relationship.

He who makes $25, 000 annually through passive income is more enviable than he who earns $100, 000 annually through a salary.

Having a passive personality, is a soft way to live a dead life.

No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others.

Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of meAnd it starts from the heart 'til it reaches my outer me

By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.