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«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.»
Author: Arthur J. Goldberg
| Keywords:
brooding, compelled, devotion, hostility, passive, pervasive, prohibited, secular
«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.»
Author: Dorothy Thompson
| About:
Absence,
Peace
| Keywords:
aggressive, alternatives, passive, responding, responses
«Psychoanalysis shows the human infant as the passive recipient of love, unable to bear hostility. Development is the learning to love actively and to bear rejection.»
Author: Karl Stern
| Keywords:
actively, hostilities, hostility, infant, Learning to, passive, psychoanalysis, recipient, recipients, rejection, rejections, unable
«The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.»
«To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.»
«So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Apathy,
Laziness,
Sin
| Keywords:
aggressive, apathy, effects, greed, laziness, passive, too little, tragic
«Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.»
«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.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
contemplative, energize, energized, energizes, energizing, passive, write out
«The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| Keywords:
high pressure, passive, pumping, receptacle, receptacles
«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.»
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