Quotessence
Home / Topics / Complacency Quotes

Complacency Quotes

Browse 384 quotes about Complacency.

Related topics

PeopleSelfIfsHateEnemyMenThinkingWorldActionDoeSpiritualNeedsWantMindShouldLifeDesireDespairHardHumansKindLittlesWayComfortFactsGivingGrowthHatefulIgnoranceMoralValues

Complacency Quotes

“People are worried that machines will take over the world and then they’ll have no voice any more. Well - what voice do you have today, despite having a voice! You are already puppets to your political overlords. You don’t think for yourself, you don’t feel for yourself, you don’t behave for yourself - heck, that’s why you have election in the first place - not so you could choose a leader, but so you don’t have to take any responsibility. And you are still worried about machines taking over your lives! Your lives are already taken over, not by mechanical deities but by organic sectarian deities born of the womb of your own indifference. So forget about a fictitious future which may or may not happen and pay attention to the real threat that haunts the society in the present - namely, your own indifference.”

Social JusticeCorruptionIndifferencePoliticiansPolitical ScienceComplacencySocial StudiesHuman Rights ActivistCivic DutyPolitics Freedom Liberty
Book:Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
Create image

“With indifference people are continuously breeding a society full of disparity – they are constantly aiding the creation of more inequality. We are constantly making way for a world where some parents give their kids x-box to soothe them, for their birthday, and many more parents are forced to use leftover cardboard boxes as cradle for their babies because they don't even have a roof over their head. This is our so called civilization - this is our so called modern humanity - shame on us - shame on us as a species - shame on us as civilized beings - shame on us as thinking and breathing individuals of conscience. No more - no more - we must break this disparity - and we must do it right now - and we are not going to do it by fighting over whose ideology is the best - we are going to do it only by taking actual responsibility of our society - by taking actual responsibility of the world - we are going to do it by acting as a living cure for those disparities, by using our own resources as means to erase those gaps however we can. Only with action born from our heart can we end disparity, not with talks of argument and inaction of complacency.”

Brainy QuotesHumanitarianIndifferenceSocial ResponsibilitySocial WorkComplacencyGeopoliticsHumanitarian CrisisHumanitarian AidHuman Rights Violations
Book:The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
Create image

“The simple rule to abide by and become excellent is that “Don’t see what you have achieved yesterday with the same pleasure eyes you used to see it when it was done by you”. Look forward and do better than you did earlier!”

PleasureAchieveExcellenceFood For ThoughtIsraelmore AyivorEyesComplacencyBetterComplacentRuleDo ItExtra MileExcelDon TExtraPress OnAbideLook ForwardDo It BetterEarlierComplacence
Book:The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Create image

“I'll be honest with you, the number one reason for all of my past break ups was too much complacency. I'm not perfect, but I just know I'm not cut out for mediocrity in any shape or form. Moreover, I think this has a lot to do with my life purpose as well. I believe I was not brought into this world to turn complacent women into passionate women, but rather to turn passionate women into goddesses.”

DesireRelationshipsPassionateSensualityMediocrityGoddessComplacencyLive With PassionLife Purpose QuotesFeminine Woman
Author:Lebo Grand
Create image

“Increasing policing and government programs an teaching women how to be safe is not going to correct this situation. Only understanding and a commitment to telling the truth about the cruelty inflicted on our women in the name of settling this country would help change peoples’ perceptions, end their complacency, and stop the continued brutalization and dehumanization of our women.”

TruthUnderstandingWomenSafetyComplacencyGovernment ProgramsDehumanizationPerceptions
Book:Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
Create image

“Do not be complacent about your achievements and not to strive for continual improvement when you get to the top. As soon as you let success go to your head, you sink into following familiar patterns and play it safe. In other words, you risk losing your edge.”

LifeInspirationalInspirationMotivationalSuccessInspirational QuotesMotivationLife QuotesInspiringPositivePositive ThinkingInspirePrideAchievementLivingOptimismImprovementOptimisticArrogancePositive LifeComplacencyPositive AffirmationLose One S Edge
Author:Roy T. Bennett
Create image

“We can dismiss any notion that the Nazi regime murdered Jews in order to gratify German public opinion. It took elaborate precautions to hide these actions from the German people and from foreign observers. In official documents the responsible authorities referred to the killings with euphemisms like Sonderbehandlung (“special handling”), and undertook major operations to eliminate all traces of them, at a time when men and materiel could hardly be spared from the fighting. At the same time, there was no particular effort to keep the secret from German troops on the eastern front, many of whom were regularly assigned to participate. Some soldiers and officials photographed the mass executions and sent pictures home to their families and girlfriends.57 Many thousands of soldiers, civil administrators, and technicians stationed in the eastern occupied territories were eyewitnesses to mass killings. Many more thousands heard about them from participants. The knowledge inside Germany that dreadful things were being done to Jews in the east was “fairly widespread.” As long as disorderly destruction such as the shop-front smashings, beatings, and murders of Kristallnacht did not take place under their windows, most of them let distance, indifference, fear of denunciation, and their own sufferings under Allied bombing stifle any objections. In the end, radicalized Nazism lost even its nationalist moorings. As he prepared to commit suicide in his Berlin bunker in April 1945, Hitler wanted to pull the German nation down with him in a final frenzy. This was partly a sign of his character—a compromise peace was as unthinkable for Hitler as it was for the Allies. But it also had a basis within the nature of the regime: not to push forward was to perish. Anything was better than softness.59”

EvilDistanceFascismHolocaustComplacencyConcealing From The PublicSecret Genocide
Book:The Anatomy of Fascism
Create image

“Never be complacent about the current steps; don't agree and follow the status quo. Be determined that you are making an indelible impact with great change. Now, dress up and go to make it happen!”

ChangeStepsImpactExcellenceFood For ThoughtDetermineIsraelmore AyivorExcellentGreatStatus QuoComplacencyMake It HappenNeverComplacentGoDressExcelGreat ChangeHappenMake An ImpactCurrentDress UpDo It BetterMake It BetterIndelible ImpactBe DeterminedCurrent Steps
Book:The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Create image

“To write or read on the precipice feels right in this moment in particular, as if it is coming into a new fullness, a wholeness which was not possibly entirely in the complacency of our living before, the city whose obverse was not at Necropolis yet. This is the moment when the skin of the fig gives into the needle of the wasp’s thorax, when the wasp breaks into the dark.”

WritingChangeTheoryCriticismAgencyPandemicComplacency
Book:We the Parasites
Create image

“Desires are currency notes. If you have a new crispy note and a soiled note, you will first try to spend the soiled note. Desire to find the supreme truth is the most crispy note. You are saving it for last. Even amongst soiled notes, you are first trying most soiled: You first try broken partners before settling for marriage material, you try painful jobs before settling for your passion, you try wrong Gurus and books before settling for the one that you need.”

LifeMindPsychologyDecisionsComplacency
Author:Shunya
Create image

“It is up to all of us to fix this. It’s not gonna be because somebody comes and saves ya. You know, the most important office in this democracy is the citizen, the ordinary person, who says “nah, that’s not right.” And I do think one of the reasons that our commitment to democratic ideals has eroded is that we got pretty comfortable and complacent. It has been easy during most of our lifetimes to say you are progressive, or say you are for social justice, or say you're for free speech, and not have to pay a price for it. And now we're at one of those moments where you know what, it's not enough just to say you’re for something, you may actually have to do something and possibly sacrifice a little bit. So yeah, if you're a law firm being threatened, you might have to say, OK, we will lose some business because we’re gonna stand for a principle. If you are a university, you may have to say, figure out, are we in fact doing things right? Have we in fact violated our own values, our own code, violated the law in some fashion? If not, and you're just being intimidated, well, you should be able to say, well, that's why we got this big endowment. We'll stand up for what we believe in and then we'll pay our researchers for a while out of that endowment and we'll give up the extra wing, or the fancy gymnasium, we can delay that for a couple years because, you know, academic freedom might be a little more important. For most of human history and to this day in most places in the world, there is a cost to challenging the powers that be, particularly if they're abusing that power. And I’ve noticed this among some wealthier folks who, you know, after George Floyd, they were right there and a bunch of companies were talking about how they cared about diversity and they wanted to do this and they were all for that and they are mute right now. But what that tells me is it was OK when it was cool and trendy, and when it’s not, eh, not so much. And that, I think, is what we have to… each of us has to examine in our own hearts, is, alright, we say we're for equality, are we willing to fight for it, are we gonna risk something for it. We say that we’re for rule of law--are we going to stick to that when it’s tough, not when it’s easy. We believe in freedom of speech. Do we stand up for freedom of speech when the other person talking is saying stuff that infuriates us and is wrong and hurtful. Do we still believe in it?”

PrinciplesDemocracyRiskDiversitySocial JusticeEquityComplacencyStanding UpDemocratic Ideals
Author:Barack Obama
Create image

“In ancient times, the greatest source of freedom was believed to be self-knowledge, in the Middle Ages - self-discipline, in the modern era - self-determination, while today it is believed to be self-satisfaction. The first liberates the mind, the second the spirit, the third the will, while the fourth - the desire to get rid of the other three.”

LiberationSelf DeterminationSelf KnowledgeSelf DisciplineComplacencySelf DestructionPersonal FreedomVolitionSelf Satisfaction
Author:Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
Create image

“Both tears and sweat are salty. but none of them are faulty. the tears can get you somewhere, the sweat will make you only wet.”

LoveLifeLife LessonsHopeLiteratureFictionCompassionTearsLivingComplainingLove StoryHard TimesReincarnationCryingComplacencySweatingPast LivesTeardropConcernsPierrotConsolation For A Broken HeartThe Pierrrot S Love
Book:Pierrot Love: When A Call From The Other Side Takes Its Own Side
Create image

“The latent abundance of your inner most resources matters less. What matter most is the impact you can make with your inner resources and the distinctive footprints you can leave with what is within you. The excuse not to dare is there for everybody. When you see so many people crowded at the entrance, think of the roofing and if the roofing is too high, think of the next door and if the next door is not penetrable, create a door within the wall.”

ThoughtDaringExcusesComplacencyThinkersThink DifferentFootprintsImpact MakersDoing ItThe CrowdAveragenessCreate Your PathFind Another WayWhat Is Within You
Author:Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Create image

“I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I see these pictures of people in Beijing and New Delhi, walking around with masks on, because you can't walk outside your house and breathe? If you can't breathe?…If that's not the cue to make a fundamental change, I don't know what is!”

ThinkingChangeEnvironmentIgnoranceRevolutionClimate ChangeStupidityThoughtReformPollutionAdaptationComplacencyEnvironmentalismAdaptingAdapt
Author:Bill Maher
Create image