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“Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is the price of his immunity from political pressure and of the security of his tenure.”

Believe America Law Political Opinion Security Judging Tradition Absolutes Pressure Conservative Loyalty Passive Interpreter Immunity Tenure Political Opinions Conservative Political

Book:The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power that comes from within. Those who submit to the divine essence of life will live in unperturbed tranquility and peace even when the whole wide world goes through turbulence after turbulence.”

World Mean Doe Whole Divine Weak Essence Opposites Wide Submit Passive Tranquility Submission Turbulence Essence Of Life Fatalism True Power Capitulation

Author:Elif Safak

“The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.”

Ifs Men Art Opinion Talent Genius Respect England Ass Good Man Virtuous Passive Polite Inquiry Obedient Art And Science Respectability Talent And Genius Noblemen

Book:William Blake

Source: William Blake

“Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active and not just passive admirers of tradition!”

Giving Feels Long Heaven Alive Tradition Sake Active Something New Passive Admirer

Author:Carl Nielsen

“Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity”

Promise Perception Perseverance Prosperity Pessimism Passive Persistent

Author:Yatin Patel

“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.”

Seems Religious Results Concepts Constitution Active Devotion Passive Secular Compelled Hostility Neutrality Brooding

Author:Arthur Goldberg

“Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.”

Two Different Would Be Courses Sex Female Active Passive Hegel

Book:The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.”

Growth Approach Passive

Author:Tom Peters

“One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The mind however does not actively sort out information. The information sorts itself out and organises itself into patterns. The mind is passive. The mind only provides an opportunity for the information to behave in this way. The mind provides a special environment in which information can become self-organising. This special environment is a memory surface with special characteristics.”

Source: Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step

“The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.”

Men World Kind Self Earth Practice He Man Creatures Remains Affair Immortal Righteousness Passive True God

Author:Kabir

“The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.”

Writing Art Feelings Difficult Emotion Mood Admiration Dread Passive Contemplative Energizing Anger And Fear

Author:Susan Sontag

“Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.”

Thinking Stills Challenges Effort Practice Audience Students Critical Professors Passive Lectures Critical Thinking

Author:Derek Bok

“Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role-that we were the discoverers, not the discovered.”

“Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.”

“TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation.”

Tvs Occupation Passive Mindless

Author:Raymond Arroyo

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

Social Justice Issues Teaching Social Justice Profession Passive Linked

Author:Bill Ayers

“I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.”

People Real Fields Theory Variety Criticize Passive Skepticism Testing Discouraging Armchairs

Author:Tim Ferriss

“New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.”

Behavior Direct Conventions Aggression Passive Transparent Pleasantries

Author:Daniel Gillies

“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.”

Mean Fighting Next Bits Walks Creative Expression One Day Rain British Weather Filmmaker Sunshine Iran Censorship Passive Next Day Restriction Sunny Iranian Creative Expression

Author:Asghar Farhadi

“The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of its own evolution.”

Science Force Subjects Objects Evolution Internals Passive Organisms Autonomous External Forces

Book:The Dialectical Biologist

Source: The Dialectical Biologist

“We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information - all in short (and loud) doses of "easy listening".”

Made Culture Easy Wealth Information Listening Entertainment Spread Loud Devices Passive Dose Impart Hedonism Dissipation Electronic Devices

Book:Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

“Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable.”

Thinking Has Beens Play Age Accepting Roles Majors Tendencies Passive Admirable Advisable Roles In Life

Author:Katherine Helmond

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