Apathy Quotes - Page 13

• There is within the hearts of people a deep desire for peace on earth, and they would speak for peace if they were not bound by apathy, by ignorance, by fear. It is the job of the peacemakers to inspire them from their apathy, to dispel their ignorance with truth, to allay their fear with faith that God's laws work - and work for good.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Jobs, Ignorance, Heart

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.99, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Given the choice of apathy or someone liberating mink, burning down a research torture-laboratory, or killing a vivisectionist or other DIRECT murderer of animals, I will choose the aforesaid actions over apathy any day of the week.-

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Choices, Burning Down

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• 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.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Giving, Empathy

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• God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Keeping Secrets, Boredom

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1966). “Conversations and encounters”

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• The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Death, Wisdom, Atheist

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Apr 19, 2016

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• A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected and cherished-not rejected, feared as a threat and destroyed. A new age in which love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty. A new age in which hope liberates us from the shallowness, apathy and self-absorption that deaden our souls and poison our relationships.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Life, Christian, Love Is

  Eucharistic Celebration On The Occasion Of The 23-rd World Youth Day, w2.vatican.va. July 20, 2008.

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• Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

  John Muir

  Home, Adventure, Environmental

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.364, Library of America

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• Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.

  Isaac Marion

  Stupid, Cynical, Wool

  Isaac Marion (2011). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people fall apart when they get hurt. Puddle into apathy and despair and never recover. They wait all their lives for someone to come along and rescue them.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Hurt, Fall, People

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.57, Delacorte Press

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• My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy

  David Wong

  Soul, Melons, Gallagher

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.197, Titan Books

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• I never liked the atmosphere of Washington . I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in.

  Booker T. Washington

  Race, Office, Empathy

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• I understand perfectly. Darquesse isn't a separate entity. She isn't another person. She's you. If you make the wrong choices, if you stop loving the people who love you, if you allow the world to twist and turn and change you, then yes, the future we've seen will come to pass. But if you fight, and if you kick, and struggle, and refuse to give in to the apathy, or the anger, or the hopelessness, then you'll change the future, and you'll walk your own path. And I'll be right there beside you, Valkyrie. I'll always be beside you.

  Derek Landy

  Struggle, Love You, Fighting

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• I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.

  Lionel Shriver

  Drunk, Care, Kevin

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, p.174, Profile Books

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• 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

  Men, Bricks And Mortar, Empathy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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• The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Honesty, Integrity, War

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• The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.

  Virginia Woolf

  Order, Empathy, Mind

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4523, Delphi Classics

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• If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train.

  Anthony Storr

  Writing, Men, Creative

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• The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible for everything that takes place, the good things and the bad things. True enough, they suffer most from a war, but it is their apathy, craving for authority, etc., that is most responsible for making wars possible. It follows of necessity from this responsibility that the working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are capable of establishing lasting peace.

  Wilhelm Reich

  War, Responsibility, Men

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• My job is to confront apathy and confront all the forces that tend to batter each of us down with all kind of oppression, even self-oppression. I consider that the main job of the art that I do- to rattle the cage, wake people up, wake myself up, confront all that would conspire to keep us down.

  Lydia Lunch

  Art, Jobs, Self

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• Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.

  Rajneesh

  Independent, Home, Treasure

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• We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Needs, Awake

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• ...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Relationship, Hate, Love Is

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

  Winston Churchill

  Dog, Men, Muslim Faith

  "The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (Volume II)". Book by Winston Churchill, 1899.

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• The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.

  William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

  Country, Party, Political

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• Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

  Andre Gide

  Empathy, Sound

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