“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.”
William Blake
“We think we have a spectacular package of passive and active open spaces. We think we've got a really good proposal, which is the result of our hard work and the work of your staff.”
Rob Meyer
“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.”
Claude Bernard
“Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true,”
Eve Ensler
“In Tetrad form, the artefact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Conformity-the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority”
Mark Twain
