“It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.”
“The student is to read history actively not passively.”
“Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses.”
“Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.”
“His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.”
“The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.”