Famous quotes containing the words passive and/or mode:
“It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are a product of mens attitude toward women and womens passive acceptance of this attitude.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877?)
“Happiness is a matter of ones most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for ones ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonising preoccupation with self.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)