Complacency Quotes - Page 4

If we get used to life that is the crime.

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them.

it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.

There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

Disability strips away complacency. Affliction is brutal, but it can also push vital questions to the fore. The afflicted body becomes a site of otherness, confusion, isolation, watchfulness, longing. One becomes keenly aware of the impersonality of brute matter, but at the same time there is often a raw, mistrustful desire for gentleness, connection.

We are going to have to continue to keep the pressure on the enemy. There is no room for complacency on this.

I'm from the American West. We have forest fires out there. And some of the worst forest fires in our history, the most damage were caused when we pulled the fire crews off the line too early. And so we're going to have to continue to keep the pressure on the enemy - ISIS. There's no room for complacency on this.

Hate is only conquered by love.

Americans are about to discover that their system is more vulnerable than they thought. There's a lot of complacency in American politics, there's a lot of complacency in advanced democracies generally.

Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.

Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.