Complacency Quote by Natalie Angier Download Open image “The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.” — Natalie Angier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Complacency Dictatorship Dictatorship Complacency Enemy Enemy Freedom Freedom Freedom Dictatorship Insidious Insidious Enemy
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. — Plato Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do. — Bill Willingham Copy Share Image
“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny. — Trent Lott Copy Share Image
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Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically beautiful. Muscles… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“Giving a girl the impression that girlhood is an extended bounce on Barney's knee is like prepping a young gazelle for life on the… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
[On women:] We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great fetal oocyte extinctions. In that sense, at… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death. — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front atheists with… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Nature is a tenacious recycler, every dung heap and fallen redwood tree a bustling community of saprophytes wresting life from the dead and discarded,… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows what the whales may have to click and clack about, but it could be a form of voting-time to stop here and… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“The clitoris not only applauds when a women flaunts her mastery; it will give a standing ovation. In the multiple orgasm, we see the… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“The brain is an organ of aggression, and there are many roads to this Rome of imagined conquests — so many that mental disorders,… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.” — Sonia Rumzi Copy Share Image
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure. — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
We are the best the show, others weak hold. Just to get complacency / which does not — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“It’s a fallacy that this generation does not know how to love as its predecessor did. Truth of the matter is, modern love is… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get… — Aesop Copy Share Image
In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction. — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Complacency is a creeping danger. Unless wisdom sets in, you will never come to your senses. — Jey Lopez Copy Share Image