Quotes About Complacency

Russia and China have maintained that people prize stability over freedom and that as long as the central State creates conditions for economic growth, people will be complacent and will be willing to literally sell away their rights. In fact, this very economic growth will eventually catch up with these regimes.

Clearly, the inhabitants of stable democracies find it hard to appreciate what they have: 'You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone' isn't just a song lyric; it's an expression of something fundamental about the human brain.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

The complacent disregard by the latter of the social catastrophe wrought in the former appalls me almost as much as the catastrophe itself.

Familiarity, and a few dozen cheap flyballs off the Monster, breed contempt.

The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.

When you do anything for eight or nine years, you start getting a little comfortable; you start taking things for granted.

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.

I should warn, you, Duncan: I'm not going to fight for you. The whole point of you is that you're not the sort of person anyone fights over. You're my easy life option. The moment you stop being that, you're no option at all.

Jackie and Phil are the most boring people in the southeast of England, possibly because they've been married too long, and therefore have nothing to talk about, apart from how long they've been married. In the end, I am reduced to asking them, in a joking sort of way, for the secret of their success; I was only saving time, because I think they would have told me anyway.

He was an average man. A man willing to accept things as they were, and, because of this, he lacked the potential to be in anyway original.

You've got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they're properly scared and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they're not competent to think.

Trabajadores sumisos, consumidores expectantes y ciudadanos pasivos.

What's wrong with standing in the same place if it's a good place?" "Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone. Honey, alone and lonely share the same root.

Because you can end up taking beautiful things for granted if you get too used to them.

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...

My gold­fish and me, both of us are just here swim­ming in one place.