Complacency Quotes - Page 4

• In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Life, Acceptance, Comfort

  The Guardian, July 28, 1989.

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• Many great persons have been of opinion that love is no other thing than complacency itself, in which they have had much appearance of reason. For not only does the movement of love take its origin from the complacency which the heart feels at the first approach of good, and find its end in a second complacency which returns to the heart by union with the thing beloved--but further, it depends for its preservation on this complacency, and can only subsist through it as through its mother and nurse; so that as soon as the complacency ceases, love ceases.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Love, Mother, Heart

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.493, Catholic Way Publishing

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• No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

  Francis of Assisi

  No Regrets, Enemy, Doe

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• That complacency and that willingness to give yourself over to a larger power structure is how civilizations destroy themselves. And I just hope people wake up from the slumber they've willed themselves to. Because we're really in a dark place right now.

  Karyn Kusama

  Dark, People, Giving

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...

  Paul Ryan

  People, Safety, Hammocks

  "Paul Ryan Wants ‘Welfare Reform Round 2’" by Arthur Delaney, Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

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• The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

  Diane Ravitch

  Reform, Obstacles, American Education

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• An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Audience

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• Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

  Chuck Grassley

  Hurt, Taxpayers, Beneficiaries

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• Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents

  Albert Camus

  Sacrifice, Vanity, Civilization

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• When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.

  Rajneesh

  Hate, Zen Buddhism, Clear

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• From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street.

  Mark Helprin

  Song, Long, Political

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• I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.

  Trent Reznor

  Uncomfortable Situations, Enemy, Trying

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• This is the complacency I have run into.

  Bob Higgins

  Running

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• The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, Mean, Responsibility

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• Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

  Franz Kafka

  Vanity, Literature, Firsts

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb.

  Rod Steiger

  Doors, Miracle, Opening

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• On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Office, Ineptitude, Might

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• The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind us all of the danger of complacency during our continued war on terror.

  Mark Foley

  War, United States, Today

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• Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the decisions that they will eventually be forced to make.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Decision, Leader, Way

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• I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Hate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.278, Harvard University Press

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• Hate generalizes; love is particular.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Life, Hate

  Erica Jong (1991). “Becoming light: poems, new and selected”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

  Mason Cooley

  Hate, Cat, Pet

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• The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

  Bonnie Hammer

  Mistake, Biggest Mistake

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• Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.

  Unknown

  Hate, Power, Sisterhood

  "Who Won’t Be Voting for Trump" by Eliot Weinberger, London Review of Books, Volume 38, No.20, pp. 3-6, www.lrb.co.uk. October 20, 2016.

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• I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Hate, Science, Men

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1943). “The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes: His Speeches, Essays, Letters, and Judicial Opinions”, p.444, Transaction Publishers

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