Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger. — Carl Deuker Copy Share Image
The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency. — C. D. Darlington Copy Share Image
“Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.” — Sonia Rumzi Copy Share Image
If you don't have competition in a squad, you can have complacency - and, if you have complacency, you won't win. — Nikita Parris Copy Share Image
Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
“It is essential, then, to keep one's attention focused on the present; to guard against any complacency creeping in on account of… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I'm a strong supporter of comfort breeds complacency. Growing up poor I wasn't comfortable, and my mom had to work so hard… — Farrah Gray Copy Share Image
We tend to default to complacency. Stick to the easy option. We all do it. We've tried to create a business model… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Saviour, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
Since [violence against women] is rooted in discrimination, impunity and complacency, we need to change attitudes and behavior - and we need… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character. — Allan Boesak Copy Share Image
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from… — Hugh Evans Copy Share Image
But I am living in the midst of the uncertainty and risk, amid things that can and do bring physical destruction, because… — Katie Davis Copy Share Image
So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Some writers whom I respect very much, like China Miéville and some others of the New Weird, consider the true role of… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The drug war isn't what purports to be. If you look at the whole operation and the tie-in between the American intelligence… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit… — John Stott Copy Share Image
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