“Like an unexpected wet mop in the face of tired complacency,”

Written with courage and passion, this is a book whose often counterintuitive clarity shakes entombed assumptions like an earthquake.

Whether you end up convinced or not, you will never think about American national security the same way ever again.

The Sovereignty Solution works on the receptive mind as a pry bar works on a tightly sealed box.

What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.

This is the complacency I have run into.

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.

When you have faith, you move. Complacency actually shows lack of faith. When it’s time to move in a new direction in order to progress, the right people will come to us.

I’m speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information.

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.