Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.
— Frank Zappa
Superior Inconvenience quotations
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.
We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death.
My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Women? Women are like...thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient.
An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.
Everyone works hard when they want to, when they get quick results, when it's convenient to put forth effort. The best work hard when they don't want to, when it's inconvenient to give it that little extra effort... and that extra effort might be just what they need to place them on top.
Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.
I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.
With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.
Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.
If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard.
If a man . . . would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of his adversary as hard as it squeezed him, then he suffered no inconvenience from it.
It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.
I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels of books and periodicals, and towards the latter part of my residence from ill health arising from bad and insufficient food.
We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act.
No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.
Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.
It is one thing to be awakened to injustice and quite another to be willing to be inconvenienced and interrupted to do something about it.
I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.
Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do.
Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.
The First Amendment is often inconvenient.
But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.
The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.
Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.