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• The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. and the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Apathy, Philosophy

• The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity.

  George Bernard Shaw

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  Tags in 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.

  Helen Keller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Apathy

• “In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”

  Albert Camus

  Topics in Death, Justice

  Tags in Conflict, Apathy, War, Thinking

• Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

  Cyril Connolly

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Apathy, Crime

• Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Topics in History

  Tags in Horror, Apathy

• It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment

  Elie Wiesel

  Topics in Dissent, Politics, Power

  Tags in Apathy, Government, Indifference, Despair

• All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

  Albert Camus

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Apathy, Difficulties

• That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Apathy, Injustice, Law

• Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

  Jimmy Buffett

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  Tags in Apathy, Ignorance

• Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

  George Bernard Shaw

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  Tags in Apathy, Disobedience, Virtue

• In lazy Apathy let Stoics boast,
  Their Virtue fix’d, ’tis fixed as in a frost.

  Alexander Pope

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  Tags in Apathy, Virtue

• I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Leadership, Politics

  Tags in Apathy, Government, Attention

• 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.

  Helen Keller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Apathy, Indifference, School, Evil

• I don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

  Susan Sontag

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Apathy, Boredom, Enthusiasm

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  When too many Americans don’t vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

   

  Paul Wellstone

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  Tags in Apathy, Outrage, Action, Disappointment, Hope

• Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Apathy, Action, Character, Duty

• Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there’s all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

  Arthur Gordon

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  Tags in Apathy, Acceptance

• When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, dont sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may be delivering the worst messages today, but history shows that grass-roots energy has the power to change anything when that energy is focused toward justice

  John Kerry

  Topics in Justice, Suffering

  Tags in Apathy, Indifference, Washington

• Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Apathy