Quotes About Complacency

That's how tyranny succeeds. When folks think it won't affect them until eventually it does.

She took him for granted sometimes. That was the luxury of a long marriage.

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is complex beyond any hope of complete understanding.

A dry well is not a friend of a thirsty man; and an ignorant man, of the progression!

The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.

Sometimes you can make a substantial amount of money and automatically think that you've made it, that you did everything you wanted to do. Some people just stop.

Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.

Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

It's pathetic how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great"-Hans Junior

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

The Baby Boomers: whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "Gimme that! It's mine!"

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

Their tameness is shocking to me.

So removed had the British now become from their Indian subjects, and so dismissive were they of Indian opinion, that they had lost all ability to read the omens around them or to analyse their own position with any degree of accuracy. Arrogance and imperial self-confidence had diminished the desire to seek accurate information or gain any real knowledge of the state of the country.