Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Mae WestTags: morality complacency surprise
I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.
Howard ZinnTags: politics society ethics self-determination independence autonomy proactivity complacency
You are -- your life, and nothing else.
Jean-Paul SartreTags: life self complacency
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Dan RatherTags: time complacency speed cars commuting driving roads traffic
Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, ....whence it becomes expedient for promoting the publick happiness that those persons, whom nature hath endowed with genius and virtue, should be rendered by liberal education worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens, and that they should be called to that charge without regard to wealth, birth or accidental condition of circumstance.
Thomas JeffersonTags: apathy political-philosophy corruption complacency decline misgovernment
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 SparksTags: loneliness complacency
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam ChomskyTags: apathy consumerism control complacency resignation learned-helplessness the-powers-that-be
There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.
Gordon B. HinckleyTags: education lifelong-learning complacency
You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I have suffered as they, and even we have born witness in silence to lesser ills under less dire threat. Yet, in the face of evil, to sit silent is an even greater evil. Complacency is ever the enabler of darkest deeds;
Robert FanneyTags: evil courage fight fantasy suffering heroism threat complacency enablement
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Emily BrontëTags: oppression charity complacency false-charity
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