To be the object of desire is to be defined in the passive case. To exist in the passive case is to die in the passive case – that is, to be killed. This is the moral of the fairy tale about the perfect woman.
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.
[To think for oneself] is the maxim of a reason never passive. The tendency to such passivity, and therefore to heteronomy of reason, is called prejudice; and the greatest prejudice of all is to represent nature as not subject to the rules that the u...
Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies a...
To be silent is to be passive.
I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism...
Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, ne...
Not ordinarily do men achieve this balance of opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble s...
I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and one must be very, very aggressiv...
I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.
Waiting is a form of passive persistence.
For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses.
Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
I still like to get carried away - but passively.
Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.
Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.
