Quotes About Passive Aggression

#1. Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

Criss Jami

#2. I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.

John Oliver

#3. Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second.

Lawrence Venuti

#4. Side note: is anyone else grateful social media wasn't a thing when they were a teenager? It's like Draco Malfoy and all three Heathers smooshed into one invisible organism that thrives on Internet memes and passive aggression.

Brittany Gibbons

#5. Why does forgiveness irritate me so much?" I ask Chuck.
"Because it's the ultimate act of passive aggression," he says.
"Because it keeps sin alive," says my sister.

Abigail Thomas

#6. Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive aggression. From a distance, we are all fighting, and I am looking at this from a distance.

Robert Greene

#7. New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

Daniel Gillies

#8. I have to say, passive aggression gets a bad rap these days. It may not be appropriate in all occasions, but it's a lot better than aggressive aggression.

A. J. Jacobs

#9. This is passive-aggression in action.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. When you pray, move your feet." Prayer without action, like optimism without engagement, is passive aggression toward the future. Even

Al Gore

#11. To have more, you must genuinely thank more.

Maddy Malhotra

#12. When it was too late for rescue, it was still early enough for revenge.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#13. Humor is a passive form of terrorism, of resistance, and of pseudo-aggression that has less to do with changing the world than with mental hygiene. It is self-therapy...

Romain Gary

#14. I didn't come here to fight with you. I'm here to fight for you.

Mayandree Michel

#15. ho'oponopono (Hawaiian):
Solving a problem by talking it out. After an invocation of the gods, the aggrieved parties sit down and discuss the issue until it is set right (pono means righteousness).

Howard Rheingold

#16. Most people are passive aggressive in this world. I have the idea that the human being is born with a kind of reservoir of aggression. We are inherently somewhat aggressive creatures and we either channel that in direct ways or we channel it in indirect ways and become passive aggressive.

Robert Greene

#17. Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

Bruce Lee