Passive Mode Users

Famous quotes containing the words passive and/or mode:

    To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
    Simone De Beauvoir (1908–1986)

    Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
    Paul Deman (1919–1983)