Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.
There is an understandable vindictiveness in people who come from Communist countries. They want to keep telling us that we were fools to think that we could make radical changes in our society. Though I understand their dismay, respect their suffering and don't understand the gullibility of some people who don't take in how repressive these societies are, I still think it's important to keep people of all kinds as active in civic matters as possible.
The bottom line is we are trying to do what's right. We don't just say we believe in God - we have active relationships with God.
The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another.
Becoming active is the key remedy for depression.
I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.
Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.
I Chose to be an active participant in my life rather than a spectator.
A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.
Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.
Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.
All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is make that particular sense more active and more acute.
I love going for walks and like to do fun active things outdoors.
A mind too active is no mind at all.
The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.
Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text.
Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.
This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.