Quotes About Stagnation

The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.

It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government.

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.

The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

By changing nothing, nothing changes.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.

Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.

Boredom is the biggest problem. The same position. Same day of the week. It becomes boring when you don't bring any added flowers home.

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

No hope no action.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

We seemed to be trapped in an episode of One Life To Waste. It's all very dull.

I guess we'll just sit around here and casually die, then.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

[History is] petrified imagination.

Small towns harbor small imaginations.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic.

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.