“Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.” VoiceSubjectsObjectsActivePassiveObjectivity Author:Emily Levine
“Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.” ThinkingMindSoulWholeRememberUniverseIndividualKnowingConditionsObjectsActivityEternalFormerImmortalOne TimePassiveIdentical Book:The Philosophy Collection [97 Books] Source: The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]
“A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.” MatterUseFormCitiesInfluenceObjectsOrdinaryAreasEdgesActiveBordersMassiveTerritoryPassivePerimeter Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the obscenities, the real brutalization of people. I am almost more outraged by ads for blue jeans or cars that sort of blatantly depict women not only as sex objects, but women that look younger than the age of consent, looking like they've just been raped or asking to be raped-utterly passive sex objects.” PeopleIfsWantLooksRealAgeSexPovertyCarObjectsGunAskingBlueAdsPassiveConsentJeansPornographySuppressionOutragedObscenityBlue JeansAge Of Consent Author:Betty Friedan
“Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the political party. Here, the only thing in a political party is gearing to elections, not the other things you do. So it's basically, a way of making people passive, submissive objects.” PeopleWayLooksCountryStatesPoliticalUnitedPartyUnited StatesObjectsMembersEuropeElectionActiveOther CountriesPassivePolitical PartiesSubmissive Author:Noam Chomsky
“Of course, we [ with Edward Herman] have a purpose: namely, to encourage readers to undertake what might be called "a course in intellectual self-defense," and to suggest ways to proceed; in other words, to help people undermine the dedicated efforts to "manufacture consent" and to turn them into passive objects rather than agents who control their own fate.” PeopleWaySelfHelpingMightPurposeTurnsCoursesEffortFateObjectsReaderIntellectualDefenseAgentsDedicatedPassiveConsentSelf Defense Author:Noam Chomsky