#passive

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

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled. ↗

— Bill Watterson

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Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

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If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied. ↗

— Charles Hodge

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. ↗

— James Humes

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Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession. ↗

— Bill Ayers

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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#different #different thing #make #object #oneself

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. ↗

— Claude Bernard

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For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing. ↗