William Blake
Poet, Painter
"Active Evil is better than Passive Good."
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Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity."
Octavia Spencer
Actress, Producer
"To be silent is to be passive."
Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher, Writer
"To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object."
Madonna Ciccone
Singer
"I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that."
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"After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive."
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"Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive."
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"Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science."
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"Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction)."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world."
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"I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington."
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"Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive."
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