Passive Quotes - Page 21

• Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Class, Giving, Negative

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• 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.

  James Bovard

  Rights, Government, Constitution

  "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive.

  Jim Rohn

  Communication, Style, Four

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• Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

  Mayim Bialik

  Attachment, Style, Attachment Parenting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People are unhappy because they don't understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble, excited, passive - everything. You are everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Humble, Mean

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• We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make ourselves as unthreatning, passive, and compliant as possible.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Surveillance, Way, Should

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• 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.

  Ben Bernanke

  Financial, Great Depression, Results

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• But ... the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  People, Enemy, Faces

  "Netanyahu in Congress address: 'This is a bad deal'" by Armin Rosen, www.businessinsider.com. March 3, 2015.

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• Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Reading is not a passive act. Books are not TV. Art of all kinds is an interactive challenge. The person who makes the work and the person who comes to the work both have a job to do. I am never wilfully obscure, but I do ask for some effort.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Jobs, Book

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• My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income...passive income from capital gains, dividends, residual income from business, rental income from real estate, and royalties.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dad, Real, Long

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• 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.

  Rebecca MacKinnon

  Responsibility, Thinking, Citizens

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• A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Creativity, Desire

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• Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America's official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them.

  Mark Hertsgaard

  Responsibility, Government, Names

  Mark Hertsgaard (2003). “The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World”, p.211, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• America is a large country and its people have so far not shown much interest in great international problems, among which the problem of disarmament occupies first place today. This must be changed, if only in America's own interest. The last war has shown that there are no longer any barriers between the continents and that the destinies of all countries are closely interwoven. The people of this country must realize that they have a great responsibility in the sphere of international politics. The part of passive spectator is unworthy of this country and is bound in the end to lead to disaster all round.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, War, Responsibility

  "Some Notes On My American Impressions". selftaughtcoders.com. 1921.

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• Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Meditation

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• Men don't like to step abruptly out of the security of familiar experience; they need a bridge to cross from their own experience to a new way. A revolutionary organizer must shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives - agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with the current values, to produce, if not a passion for change, at least a passive, affirmative, non-challenging climate.

  Saul Alinsky

  Passion, Men, Bridges

  "Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals" by Saul Alinsky, (pp. xxi-xxii), 1971.

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• 1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are related to each other. This spacing is the simultaneously active and passive (the a of différance indicates this indecision as concerns activity and passivity, that which cannot be governed by or distributed between the terms of this opposition) production of the intervals without which the "full" terms would not signify, would not function.

  Jacques Derrida

  Mean, Play, Differences

  "Positions" by Jacques Derrida, University of Chicago Press, (p. 21), 1982.

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

  Henry Giroux

  War, Culture, Demand

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The city is better because the city has an economy of needs and once you're talking about a city, maybe you can start talking about how you manage the climate of that city as a whole. Not by putting a dome over it but by more passive means that can potentially be put together in creative ways.

  Jonathon Keats

  Mean, Cities, Talking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The latest trend seems to be these DJs doing pre-recorded sets, in perfect pitch with the lights & acts on stage. Everything is centred around the action from the stage. It doesn't even demand action coming from the crowd! Passive consumerism or something. Mayhem with an overwhelming sound that isn't actually good music. More like diarrhoea.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Light, Perfect, Sound

  Source: thequietus.com

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

  Tyler Perry

  Mother, Strong, Aunt

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• The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Ideas, Achievement

  "Steven Pinker: The evolutionary man". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

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

  Thomston

  Would Be, Labels, Ideals

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• A mind that is positive cannot be controlled. For the purposes of occult dominion, minds must therefore be rendered passive and negative in order that control may be achieved. Minds consciously working to a definite end are a power, and power can oppose power for good or for evil. The scheme for world dominion might be doomed by the recognition of this principle alone, but, as it is unfortunately unrecognized, it remains unchallenged.

  Edith Starr Miller

  Order, Evil, Mind

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• Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

  Mao Zedong

  Passivity Is, Goal, Enemy

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