Quotes About Complacency

Remember, the surest way to lose your rights is to take them for granted.

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else

The kinna man woulda got two complimentary tickets for the Titanic.

Power makes you lazy.

We remained in our seats as everyone around us stood with the personal items they had rushed to retrieve. Why do people always do that? It's not like they can go anywhere.

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

That did not augur well, for these alienated, complacent workers, whether they knew it or not, were under challenge from purposeful, disciplined workers around the world, and their jobs and their whole way of life were in the balance.

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.

Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency.

Luke warm people are continually concerned with playing it safe; they are slaves to the god of control. This focus on safe living keeps them from sacrificing and risking for God.

God is a crutch? Yeah, well, not believing in God is a coma.

I saw my real gods . . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity.

Many people never reach greater because they don't leave good enough behind.

You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.

I don't really get excited about good things happening to me.

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

Go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Go back to bed America... you are free to do as we tell you... you are free to do as we tell you.

Global warming isn't real because I was cold today! Also great news: world hunger is over because I just ate.

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!