Quotes About Inertia

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

Habit is a great deadener.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Intellectually we know all we need to know, technologically we could remedy our plight starting today, but inertia and vested interests rule.

The opposite of love isn't hate.  It's indifference, lethal neutrality, apathy.  You don't care. Instead of energy there's malaise, inertia. Instead of chemistry there's emptiness. Instead of substance there's frivolousness. The relationship is all but dead.

I know how lazy I am. So if I have to go somewhere else I can't get to easily, I talk myself out of it.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

Nothing is more tragic–or more common –than mental inertia.

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

Have you ever just laid in bed unable to dredge up the will to get out of it?

Boredom is the domain of the dullard.

When you are in depression, almost magically, nothing motivates you.

Each thinks that their inertia will do no harm, and that it is someone else's responsibility rather than theirs to make some provision for their future: the result is that with all individually sharing this same notion they fail as a body to see their common interest going to ruin.

we] have a mighty dislike of all intentional effort and are addicted to absolute laziness until circumstances prod [us] into action.

As the forces in one man after another become prostrated and can no longer be supported by an effort of this own will, the whole inertia of the mass gradually rests its weight on the will of the commander: by the spark in his breast, by the light of his spirit, the spark of purpose, the light of hope, must be kindled in others: in so far only as he is equal to this, he stands above the masses and continues to be their master.

Where time passes uniformly, in interplanetary space, things do not fall.

Brandeis can be taken to have offered a conception of the social role of the idealized citizen. For such a citizen, active engagement in politics, at least some of the time, is a responsibility, not just an entitlement. If citizens are "inert," freedom itself is at risk. If

They often keep turning the handle of the grinder after the coffee is ground.

Once I put it down I couldn't pick it back up.

The only menace is inertia.

Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.

To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.