Passive Quotes - Page 7

• Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction.... In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life - in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character.... It is essentially a doctrine of passive obedience; it inculcates submission to all authorities found established.

  John Stuart Mill

  Christian, Lying, Selfish

  John Stuart Mill (1950). “Utilitarianism, liberty, and representative government”

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• The term revolution means: a sudden, radical, and complete change from the way things are normally done. I love that definition because I really feel that in order for us to start walking in the kind of love that Christ commanded us to - the "love your neighbor as yourself" kind - it's going to take a radical change in our current behavior. The church has become passive and selfish and it's going to take a revolution to get us back to the place where we are not just talking the talk, but walking in a love that shows the world Christ's love.

  Joyce Meyer

  Selfish, Love You, Mean

  Source: www.vaughnstreet.com

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• My mom is very good at being passive-aggressive, and my Dad is a total wiseass, so I think the mixture of the two of them is my comedy. But, I am definitely the first comedian in my family.

  Amy Schumer

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

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• I've never been a passive person. I've always felt that, if you think something should be changed, it's your responsibility to actively pursue that change.

  Bob Filner

  Responsibility, Thinking, Should

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• I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.

  Elsa Barker

  Lazy, Mind, Wish

  Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is the price of his immunity from political pressure and of the security of his tenure.

  Learned Hand

  Loyalty, Believe, Political Opinions

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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

  Courteney Cox

  Imagination, Persons

  "A revealing sit-down with Courteney Cox". Interview with Ann Oldenburg, usatoday30.usatoday.com. October 9, 2003.

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• 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.

  Lance Henriksen

  Guy, Good Things, Good Guy

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• The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in society. Historically viewed as and conditioned to be passive, dependent creatures, victims of biological circumstance, women often find it difficult to embrace this power over life and death. They fall prey to the assumption, the myth, that they cannot be trusted with it.

  Merle Hoffman

  Powerful, Fall, Life And Death

  Merle Hoffman (2012). “Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room”, p.59, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• If you have an image of someone cutting off a relationship, it's the cutting off that will lead to your suffering. If you see the action as their need being expressed, then the message is within them, not you. Any interpretation you put onto another person's message (such as passive-aggressive, withholding, etc.), you will pay for because of how you took it.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Cutting, Suffering

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• Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.

  Aristotle

  Thinking, Knowing, Soul

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.1497, Catholic Way Publishing

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• I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, And Love, Want

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• A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Territory, Matter

  Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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• Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Mirrors, Objectivity

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• Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Art, Struggle, Men

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• I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Character, Should, Feels

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• Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Reading, Exercise, Television Watching

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• The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.

  Andre Breton

  Eye, Mirrors, Roles

  "Arshile Gorky: Goats on the Roof : a Life in Letters and Documents". Book by Arshile Gorky, 2009.

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• Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.

  George Meredith

  Pain, Order, May

  'Vittoria' (1866) ch. 42

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• Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation Practice, Sitting Still

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• I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Thinking, Passive Resistance, Leader

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• Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Eye, America, Life Is

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• Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable.

  Katherine Helmond

  Thinking, Play, Age

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• We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information - all in short (and loud) doses of "easy listening".

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Listening, Culture, Information

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Envy, Hatred, Needs

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.78, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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