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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about being, things

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.

Quote by William Godwin about rightness, man, real estate

Alarm clocks can make the most passive of us fall into a violent rage.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about fall

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

Quote by Czeslaw Milosz about people, human imperfections

All languages and secrets and all sciences are nothing without love, which is generous, patient, passive, harmless, unwilling of honors, endures everything, believes in everyone, always is hoping and is defeating.

Quote by Henryk Sienkiewicz about nothing, love

I am a contemplative, but not a passive one and I try to repress as much as I can my passions - pain, fear, lust, pleasure.

Quote by Liviu Ioan (lis) Stoiciu about weakness, pain, pleasure, fear