Complacency Quotes

The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of...

Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and...

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually...

Now, these eager and apprehensive men of small property constitute the class which is constantly inc...

No," Foyle roared. "Let them hear this. Let them hear everything.""You're insane, man. You've handed...

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I...

We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdi...

You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.

I'm asking God to give you a Popeye moment. A moment when God blesses you with a divine burden: some...

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason i...

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, ...

The world, I tell you, is bored -- bored now to the explosive pitch. It's bored by all this incessan...

I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful co...

I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of histori...

It’s that I no longer know where I am. I seem to move around perfectly easily among people, to have ...

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change thei...

A person is not like a thing that you put down in one place and leave, a person moves, thinks, asks,...

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a du...

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to...

What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongsid...

Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to p...

To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: t...