Quotes About Stagnation

War is progress, peace is stagnation

Wars are terrible, but necessary, for they save the state from social petrification and stagnation

For getting a fine flourishing growth of stupidity there is nothing like pouring out on a mind a good amount of subjects in which it feels no interest.

I should be glad to see a good change in anybody, Mr. Godfrey.' she answered, with the slightest discernible difference of tone, 'but it 'ud be better if no change was wanted.

There was no reason why I should go anywhere. The world about me seemed like a vision that was hurrying by while I stood still with my pain.

A lifeless embalmment of knowledge

We continue to elect the very same people, and we wonder why we get the same results.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

You know, I was on 'Cheers' for eight years, and I couldn't get another job, and I thought, 'I'm going to be Woody Boyd forever.' Which is not bad, but I really thought I was capable of more.

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

The biggest threat to our economy comes from the loony left economic policies of the Democrats, which would scare off investment and bring back stagnation.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

The political system is broke. It doesn't matter who the leader is if you are frozen in time and your hands are tied. Social media is so strong that minority groups get a huge say.

you become so good at doing something that it prevents you from ever doing anything new.

We've been fogged in for five days. The fog makes me both love and hate the weather. I hate it because it brings me down, but I love it because if the foul state continues I won't have to do anything important with my life, and in many ways I am quite happy in that knowledge.

I am not happy. I am not unhappy. I am frozen somewhere in the middle that is so much worse. I am nowhere. Nothing is happening and I am getting more and more sad.

DüÅŸünüyordum kendime kendime: Tam bir çekirdekle eksik bir aÄŸaç aras?ndaki fark, tam çekirdeÄŸin ç?kmaza girdiÄŸi ve deÄŸiÅŸmediÄŸi takdirde çürüyeceÄŸi, eksik aÄŸac?n ise önünde çok parlak bir geleceÄŸi olduÄŸuydu

Habit is a great deadener.

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

a system is working when an attempt to transform that system is blocked.

Every time she considered getting up and doing something, her limbs wouldn't move.

Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.

It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.