Quotes About Complacency

Sometimes, I have a dared dream to myself that one day, history may even say that my voice--which disturbed the white man's smugness, and his arrogance, and his complacency--that my voice helped to save America from a grave, possibly even a fatal catastrophe.

I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born for—the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?

Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

That's one thing that amazes me about society. That is, that you can do damn near anything and nobody's gonna say anything or notice.

The most deadly poison of our time is indifference.

When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

Complacency and ignorance, Zebara suggested, pouring more brandy. A very good way to keep a large population so tractable the society lacks rebellion.

success had bred confidence; confidence had blurred into complacency; complacency had caused human beings to behave awfully.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

People have been indoctrinated so completely by their jobs that they don't want to know how something works, they're willing to accept that perhaps the laws of nature don't work as they expect, and by the way, can I have the remote?

You're cute and smart, and you've gotten everything you've ever asked for, and that makes you lazy and dangerous." "Wow

When one was an immortal, the freshness of life had a way of dying even more quickly than one's body had. As the centruies blended together, it was easy to forget the human side of oneself. To remember why humanity needed saving. It was hard to remember how to laugh. Then again, laguther and Valerius were virtual strangers. Until Tabitha, he'd never really shared a laugh with anyone.

Insanity is coasting through life.

I am extremely content in my life - sometimes to the point where I really should find something to moan about!

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

I'm too set in my ways to start doing the right thing," he complained. "You're a bad influence, Horace.

If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

It would be salutary, however, if we could retain our complacency in good conscience.

Zimmerman había sido un hombre que se deleitaba con lo espantosa que era su vida, y prefería quejarse a cambiarla.

Despite the recurrence of events in which the debris-basin system fails in its struggle to contain the falling mountains, people who live on the front line are for the most part calm and complacent. It appears that no amount of front-page or prime-time attention will ever prevent such people from masking out the problem.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

I don't have a complacent dressing room, thank goodness.