#complacency

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#ball #closed #complacency #corruption #democracy

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#could #enjoy #ever #every #gig

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency. ↗

— Diane Ravitch

#complacency #education #greatest #greatest obstacle #hope

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all. ↗

— Mike Patton

#complacency #contentment #disposition #happiness #attitude

That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#loneliness #anger

The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened, is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent. ↗

— George Eliot

#security #change

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#complacency #inspirational #change

Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#complacency #corruption #decline #misgovernment #political-philosophy

You are -- your life, and nothing else. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#life #self #life

Routine and predictable days are the breeding grounds for complacency. ↗

— Wayde Goodall

#predictabiltiy #routine #men