Apathetic Quotes - Page 4

• It just struck me as really odd that there were all of these conversations going on about what young women were up to. Were young women having too much sex? Were young women politically apathetic? Are young women socially engaged or not? And whenever these conversations were happening, they were mostly happening by older women and by older feminists. And maybe there would be a younger woman quoted every once in a while, but we weren't really a central part of that conversation. We weren't really being allowed to speak on our own behalf.

  Jessica Valenti

  Feminist, Speak, Odd

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I really look at my life before kids and after kids and before I was more - not narcissistic - but I was definitely more selfish. I didn't have the same concerns as I do now. I've always been political, but you've gotta be engaged. You can't be apathetic anymore because what's at stake is bigger than yourself, it's your kids.

  Raine Maida

  Selfish, Kids, Political

  "Raine Maida On Raising Three Boys". Interview With Joel Balsam, www.askmen.com.

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• My generation in the UK, they're very apathetic, a lot of them.

  Thea Gilmore

  Generations, My Generation

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The teenage pregnancy is such a tragic thing. It is such a sad and tragic thing because the children who have children do it because they think they are going to be loved. They are going to be loved, but they have to give love to be loved otherwise the child becomes depressed. Isolated and depressed. In other words apathetic.

  Laura Huxley

  Children, Teenage, Pregnancy

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• Why are the mainstream buzz things rarely contemporary? It doesn't happen very often. It's hard to feel culpable or implicated or even apathetic.

  Paul Beatty

  Buzz, Mainstream, Feels

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• America is basically a hypocritical society and recognizes that hypocrisy is found throughout. The public doesn't look for politicians to tell the truth or to deliver on their promises. This country could become America the beautiful, but it never will. It's in the hands of the wrong people. And the public is so apathetic. Those who are not apathetic are dispirited, discouraged, and disheartened. Those who will sometimes feel a twitch of inspiration that would lead them to do something, they, based on their conditioning, will start to total up all the reasons why they can't succeed.

  Ernie Chambers

  Beautiful, Country, Inspiration

  "The Maverick of Omaha". Interview With Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2006.

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• Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the empty-headed shrine of scientific materialism?

  Rob Brezsny

  Bored, Shrines, Sentimental

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• In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is impossible to go any further, will you become apathetic, or will you say it's not over and stand up with an unyielding spirit? The battle is decided by this single determination.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Determination, Thinking, Despair

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• Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.

  Rollo May

  Artist, Order, Forever

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• You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Love, Hate, Selfish

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1964). “Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu”, p.302, Courier Corporation

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• Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. People don't become inured to what they are shown — if that's the right way to describe what happens — because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling.

  Susan Sontag

  Compassion, Bored, Cynical

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.101, Macmillan

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• The absolute worst thing you can do in a scene is be apathetic.

  Del Close

  Scene, Worst, Can Do

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• Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Selfish, Adjectives, Millennials

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