Bad news: Complainers are rewarded for complaining. Indicative of the victim culture in which we live, people have not only come to expect something for nothing, but are then rewarded for how loudly they can ventilate their sense of having been victims of fraud.
You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it.
My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
It is a general error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
One thing about television in Britain is that they're so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama.
Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.
In the old days, people would pick up the phone and complain or they'd write a letter. But now they go to Ofcom and they must be sick to death of all of this. Any minor outrage that anyone's got, they go to Ofcom. They must be inundated with minor complaints.
Democracy divides the population into two groups: those of us who complain about government and those of us who are complained about.
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.
I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things.
The sign of a failing President is his complaining about the limitations of the office
You know, we do a lot of complaining here in America. And that itself is something they can't do in a lot of other countries.
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.
We've turned into a whining society.
I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot.
The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.
The more you gripe about your problems, the more problems you have to gripe about!
French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
When I listen to the complaints that follow just about every presidential debate, I'm reminded of the well-worn joke about the Jewish mother who buys her son two shirts. When he shows up at dinner wearing one, she says: 'What's the matter? You didn't like the other one?'
I think it's straight men who are oblivious to goodness or badness to dates. That's probably unfair. Maybe they just don't complain as much.
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.
Nobody wants to hear an actor complain about too much work - especially other actors.
