“Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.” ShouldStatesLawWealthRightsComfortRaisesPropertyExtremesMediocrity Author:James Madison
“The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.” LongProcessGrowthTermKeysComfortSafeSafetyEmbraceExcellenceLong TermExpensesMediocrityShellsStaticLearning Process Author:Joshua Waitzkin
“When Americans decry our politicians, we must remember that ultimately, politicians reflect us. When we demand more than mediocrity - and the passing comforts it bestows - we will certainly attain it. One hopes and prays it doesn't take an historic crisis for us to demand and reward excellence in public service.” RememberPrayingPoliticianComfortCrisisExcellenceMediocrityHistoricPublic Service Author:James M Strock
“For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.” ClassMiddleComfortAll ThingsOptimismFatsHatedContentmentMiddle ClassMediocrityProsperousCursedSteppenwolf Book:Steppenwolf: A Novel Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel