Complacency Quote by Declaration of Independence

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

— Thomas Jefferson

“To b evil is to suffer and there is joy in releasing others from suffering.”

— Rati Mehrotra

“Misfortune and experience are lost upon mankind, when they produce neither reflection nor reformation. Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases…

— Thomas Paine

“It is better to suffer evil than to do evil.”

— Brent Weeks

“The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.”

— Cassandra Clare

“We cannot choose, he thought, the people we're born into nor what they teach us. So that opposition exists, and appears to us as…

— Karen Fisher

“The amassing of evil brings misery. The accumulation of good brings blessings.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“the suffering experienced here on earth is but for a moment, and it pales in comparison to the glory which will be revealed.”

— Cassandra Baker-Durham

“Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow…

— James Kingsland

“we are directed not merely to abstain from evil actions, but even from evil thoughts, and from idle words, and empty talk, and scurrilous…

— The Church Fathers

“For all that exists in man, whether good or evil, is rendered conspicuous by the presence of great danger. His inmost feelings are roused…

— Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker

“... how frequently, in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are…

— Daniel Defoe