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Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.
JOHN DOS PASSOS, The Prospect Before Us
It is ... far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE, Democracy in America
It's enthusiasm, not apathy, that makes the world go 'round.
TONY ALESSANDRA, Charisma
Apathy and evil. The two work hand in hand. They are the same, really.... Evil wills it. Apathy allows it. Evil hates the innocent and the defenseless most of all. Apathy doesn't care as long as it's not personally inconvenienced.
JAKE THOENE, Shaiton's Fire
Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.
ANTON CHEKHOV, letter to A.S. Suvorin, Dec. 27, 1889
Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
CYRIL CONNOLLY, The Unquiet Grave
Apathy -- not hate -- is the opposite of love. It is this apathy that leads first to the death of the psyche, and in its extreme form to the death of the body.
JANE G. GOLDBERG, The Dark Side of Love
We 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, My Religion
In my better moments, I think of apathy as purpose's sleep. In my worse moments, when I'm trying to fix it or get rid of it, I call it feeling lazy, depressed, or useless.
DAWNA MARKOVA, I Will Not Die an Unlived Life
Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
ROLLO MAY, The Courage to Create
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal, and to hasten the resurrection of the dead.
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, The Liberator, Jan. 1, 1831
Apathy is the glove in which evil slips its hand.
Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.
J. K. ROWLING, speech, Jun. 5, 2008
What is called "apathy" is, I believe, a feeling of helplessness on the part of the ordinary citizen, a feeling of impotence in the face of enormous power. It's not that people are apathetic; they do care about what is going on, but don't know what to do about it, so they do nothing, and appear to be indifferent.
HOWARD ZINN, Huffington Post, Jan. 28, 2010
I am not a victim. I am alive, wide awake and free from the numbness of apathy.
ROKELLE LERNER, Daily Affirmations
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