I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet playing video games is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.
I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.
Observation is a passive science experimentation an active science.
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it as far as I'm concerned.
Before I was really passive all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power nothing. I don't know that person any more.
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.
Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators are active not passive observers.
I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.