William Pollard  - Quotes

 The arrogance of success is to think that what we did yesterday is good enough for tomorrow. 

Tags: complacency   success     


Dan Rather  - Quotes

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

Tags: cars   commuting   complacency   driving   roads   speed   time   traffic     
Thomas Jefferson  - Quotes

 Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. 

Tags: apathy   complacency   corruption   decline   misgovernment     


Howard Zinn  - Quotes

 I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers 

Tags: complacency   ethics   humanity   independence   politics   society     
Robert Fanney  - Quotes

 You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I have suffered as they, and even we have born witness in silence to lesser ills under less dire threat. Yet, in the face of evil, to sit silent is an even greater evil. Complacency is ever the enabler of darkest deeds; 

Tags: complacency   courage   enablement   evil   fantasy   fight   heroism   suffering   threat     
Nicholas Sparks  - Quotes

 That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them. 

Tags: complacency   lonliness     
Jean-Paul Sartre  - Quotes

 You are -- your life, and nothing else. 

Tags: complacency   life   self     


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