#passive

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Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.


Arthur Adamov


#pleasure

In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.


William Bernbach


#energetic #evil #good #out #passive

Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.


Asghar Farhadi


#british #censorship #creative #creative expression #day

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.


Arthur Goldberg


#brooding #compelled #concept #constitution #devotion

The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.


Peter Hammill


#becoming #comes #crucial #enthusiasm #examination

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.


Aldous Huxley


#along #become #cutting #desire #desires

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.


William Glasser


#depressed #happened #neurotic #over #over it

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


#aware #because #constitution #government #happens

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.


Dorothy Thompson


#aggressive #alternatives #conflict #creative #passive

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


Elie Wiesel


#give #indifferent #life #meaning #obligation