Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.
I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.
...there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent...
All right. The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.
Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.
When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
I think Kennedy being assassinated changed the world. That shot changed everything about America, and made us cynical, made people discontent and angry.
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or even by 'smoke signals' to gather the uprising against established political power.
Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects of that drug, then there's another drug, and so on. So we're all taking more drugs, and more expensive drugs.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Ambition is the necessary spur of a great mind to great action; when acting upon a weak mind it impels it to absurdity, or sours it with discontent.
It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....
My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
