Quotes About Complacency

Apathy in the face of continual violence is something someone who has never lived through a war cannot understand.

see, we been doing things wrong for so long now that it all starts to feel okay after a while, you know, like this is how it oughta be.

Large institutions such as the Pentagon, the Internal Revenue Service, and multinational corporations tell us that their decisions are made on the basis of solutions generated by computers, and this is usually good enough to put our minds at ease or, rather, to sleep. In any case, it constrains us from making complaints or accusations. In part for this reason, the computer has strengthened bureaucratic institutions and suppressed the impulse toward significant social change.

Todo nuestro pasado nos ha preparado para reconocer y resistir una prisión cuando las rejas empiezan a cerrarse detrás de nosotros. Nos alzamos en armas contra estos problemas. Pero ¿qué si no se sienten gritos de angustia? ¿Quién está preparado para luchar contra un mar de diversiones? ¿A quién y cuándo nos quejamos, y en qué tono de voz, cuando un discurso serio se disuelve en risas estúpidas?

Finalmente, Huxley intentaba decirnos que lo que afligía a la gente en "Un mundo feliz" no era que estaban riendo en lugar de pensar, sino que no sabían de qué se reían y por qué habían dejado de pensar.

For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.

Complacency's like a disease to wild things.

Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expressions of a lack of originality.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

the majority were of the species who, all the world over, look on the world and at everything that goes on in it and merely scratch their noses.

The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

Senin i?in bir bak?ma kolayd? babac???m. Birçok ?eyi yok sayarak belirli bir düzen içinde ya?ad?n. Sinemaya gitmedin. Hiç roman okumad?n. Zeytinya?l? enginar yemedin. Yabanc? ülke özlemi çekmedin. Kimseye hediye almad?n. Evde ku?konmazdan ba?ka bitki yeti?tirmedin.

Peace is dangerous because it encourages complacency and carelessness

I suspect it's a human characteristic not to know when you're well off," I said.

I suspect it's a human characteristic not to know when you're well off.

But the very success which had intoxicated them rendered them also too complacent to learn from less prosperous competitors.

For once I was satisfied, which is really all anyone can ask for.

We live in an age in which the overwhelming majority of people appear to be comfortable with their myopia.

Kurbanlar. gerçek bir ahlak döneminin kurbanlar?. Asl?nda her ikimiz de buyuz. Bir yerlerde devrim patlak verecek: Ama eski ahlak ölçüsü yolumuzu t?kayarak yeryüzünde de?i?mez biçimde duracak. Oysa denizde ne dalgalar patlar. Devrime kat?lmadan dipteki sular sakin, uyan?k ama uyu?mu? gibi durur.

To fall for", "to be fallen for"- I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent.

No sentía ni entusiamo ni aversión por lo que hacía. Mi letargo era tal, que simplemente me dejaba llevar por lo que consideraban mejor para mí quienes me rodeaban.

Tolerating mediocrity is as dangerous as inviting failure

They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

When you've made them that much money that fast, they don't ever want you to move a muscle or change a thing. "You just stay like you are, girl. You are just gold! Stay that way, honey!" And they are so happy, but it's very boring for you.