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  • You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.

    Choices   Joy   Growth  
  • Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

    Desire   Skins   Apathy  
  • Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

    My Religion (1927) ch. 6
  • Children are harmed more by our apathy than our error.

  • The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

    Business   Men   Animal  
    Adam Smith (1801). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”
  • Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another, and so on.

  • Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

    Self   Apathy   Defense  
  • It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium, It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums. It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections, Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.

    'Bagpipe Music' (1938)
  • The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

    "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.
  • Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity for the story, human feelings and a sense of value for the characters, intelligence and memory for the plot. What does fantasy ask of us? It asks us to pay something extra.

  • By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

    Home   Tyrants   Apathy  
  • My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy

    Soul   Apathy   Melons  
    David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.197, Titan Books
  • Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.

  • Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.110, Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

    Ignorance   Evil   Apathy  
  • Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To boast of apathy when out of pain, And in each sentence, worthy of the schools, Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules Most fit for practice, but for one poor fault That into practice they can ne'er be brought.

    Pain   Wine   School  
    Charles Churchill (1855). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes”, p.377
  • Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

    Men   Good Man   Apathy  
    "On Education" (1867)
  • But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

    Liberty   Apathy   Ease  
    "The Poetical Works. A New Ed. Carefully Rev. from the Text of Thomas Newton. With Illustr. by William Harvey".
  • If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.

    Freedom   Law   People  
    James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing
  • It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

    Fate   Men   Rights  
    Speech on the right of election of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, 10 July 1790. Usually quoted as "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," which has been attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but no one has ever found this in his writings. Atkinson's Casket, Sept. 1833, has "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." See Andrew Jackson 5
  • Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

    "Fictional character: Death". "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.
  • Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

    Prayer   Waiting   Apathy  
    H. Beam Piper (2010). “A Slave Is a Slave”, p.5, eStar Books
  • Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

  • People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.

  • The oppposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual oppposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.

    Hate   Love Is   Apathy  
  • Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

    The New York Times, March 25, 2007.
  • The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

    "The Harper Book of Quotations Revised Edition". Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 356, 1993.
  • …their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.

    John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.39, Great West Books
  • The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love-if your so consumed with hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them because your thinking about them for the same amount of time.

    Hate   Love Is   Thinking  
  • The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful, is necessary if the society is to be saved from boredom and apathy. Obviously I do not refer to everyone who calls himself a rebel, but only to the authentic rebel. Civilization gets its first flower from the rebel.

    Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.222, W. W. Norton & Company
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