Passive Voice Quotes

• El viajero era activo; iba denodadamente en busca de gente, de aventuras, de experiencias. El turista es pasivo; espera que le ocurran cosas interesantes. Va a hacer turismo.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Viajes, Aventura, Memorable

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). "La Imagen: Una guía de pseudoeventos en América", p.85, Vintage

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• El viajero era activo; iba denodadamente en busca de gente, de aventuras, de experiencias. El turista es pasivo.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Viajes, Aventura, Gente

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• Recuerda que nunca debes dividir un infinitivo. No utilice nunca la voz pasiva. No pongas afirmaciones en negativo. Corrige cuidadosamente para ver si se te escapan palabras. Y no empieces una frase con una conjugación.

  William Safire

  Negative, Splits, Remember

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• Cada vez que veo un infinitivo partido, una estructura temporal incoherente o el uso innecesario de la voz pasiva, me salen ampollas.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Use, Splits, Unnecessary

  "Sotomayoralidades" por William Safire, www.nytimes.com. 15 de junio de 2009.

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• Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver. After all, it exists for a reason.

  Constance Hale

  Writing, Arrows, Suffering

  "Mistakes were made" by Lisa Dusenbery, therumpus.net. May 02, 2012.

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• Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment has always used the passive voice. It's been a weapon of discourse so those who committed terrible acts in the old empire could not be identified.

  John Pilger

  Mind, Weapons, Empires

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

  George Orwell

  Corte, Pensamiento, Largo

  George Orwell (1953). “Shooting an Elephant: And Other Essays”

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• The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs

  Benjamin Lee Whorf, John B. Carroll, Stephen C. Levinson, Penny Lee (2012). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.113, MIT Press

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