464 Quotes About Complaining

  • Author John Ruskin
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    Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

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  • Author Adam Smith
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    When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

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  • Author Adam Smith
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    The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain of it, is to lament over the necessary effect and cause of the greatest public prosperity.

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  • Author Alexander McCall Smith
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    The Culture of Complaint... We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.

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