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The student is to read history actively not passively.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend in the true sense is not a person who passively nods approval of our conduct or ignores improper behavior. A friend is a person who cares.
— Marvin J. Ashton
Passively sitting around and waiting for things to happen only leaves things up to chance, which you have no control over.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
. . . they lurk passively, like vampire sheep
— Margaret Atwood
Life is about the decisions we make to live passionately or passively.Where's your passion? — Laura Castoro
A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.
— Wendell Berry
Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating realityitself. — Stanislav Grof
Better to wait actively than passively.
— Stephen L. Carter
We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.
— David Cameron
He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help. And
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We will not wake up ten years from now and find we have passively taken on the character of God.
— Jen Wilkin
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
— Matt Taibbi
When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
No ordinary effort stops the wheel.In sleep it spins without resistance.
Passively, falling deeper, lacking the will to activate any change. — Stephen Demone
Conformity - the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.
— Mark Twain
I would rather die fighting for what is right, than live passively amidst all that is wrong.
— Suzy Kassem
To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).
— George E.P. Box
Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
— David Eagleman
We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge.
— Edward Kennedy
As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.
— Bebe Moore Campbell
To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.
— Michael Shermer
To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.
— Virginia Woolf
A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
I still like to get carried away - but passively.
— Robert Plant
But at a certain point in our lives, we cannot passively allow our upbringing to define us. We must choose it or choose other.
— Jon Skovron
I often wish I could just passively watch people without being expected to participate myself, like television.
— M.E. Thomas
Before I knew escape, life was something to be endured, passively. Now I hunger for it.
— Kristin Halbrook
Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain.
— Corneliu E Giurgea
People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.
— Immanuel Wallerstein
Not actively surviving is passively dying.
— Ori Hofmekler
There's a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively.
— John C. Maxwell