Passive Quotes

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive aggression. From a distance, we are all fighting, and I am looking at this from a distance.

When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women’s passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.

To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.

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

There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.

We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in “Jurgen” that “to do what you always have done” and “what is expected of you” are the twin rules of life.