Quotes About Stagnation

Just like water in an aquarium, a mind left to stagnate brings forth death to whichever life that dwells within it

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

So far we've gotten nowhere at a thousand miles an hour.

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

You wouldn't believe how many philosophers are afraid of movement.

A body that doesn't move mentally or physically dies.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

There's nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.

Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?

I used to love politics. I can't say I do any more. All the fun has gone out of it. Each side is engaged in this trench warfare of managerialism. They're all too scared to say anything that might make them appear something other than completely bland.

Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.

In America, you keep on hearing productivity is low; secular stagnation, it's a new normal. It's just not true: We've had multiple wars; we're not educating our kids. We had government shut downs, badly-spent money, failures in the health system, failures and an extreme amount of regulation - that's why we're going slow.

Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

A comfortable rut and a grave are very much alike. The only real difference is the dimensions.

We haven't been in Afghanistan for ten years. We've been in Afghanistan one year, ten times.

Conflict is inevitable. She paused. You have to decide if you're on the side of progress... or on the side of stagnation. Kade considered that. I'm on the side of peace, he sent, and freedom. She mentally chuckled. You are so naïve.

CEOs can stay too long.

The functioning of our society is in a certain way sclerotic.

I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.

August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation.