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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Empathy, Offensive, Unfair

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.110, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

  Abraham Flexner

  Play, Empathy, Liberty

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• 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

  Flower, Order, Civilization

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

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• My own apathy is bone chilling.

  Lionel Shriver

  Chill, Bones, My Own

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.33, Counterpoint Press

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• Democracy suits Europeans today partly because it is associated with the triumph of capitalism and partly because it involves less commitment or intrusion into their lives than any of the alternatives. Europeans accept democracy because they no longer believe in politics. It is for this reason that we find both high levels of support for democracy in cross-national opinion polls and high rates of political apathy.

  Mark Mazower

  Believe, Commitment, Support

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• I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Beautiful, Song, Sadness

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

  Leo Buscaglia

  Choices, Joy, Growth

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• The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when u simply don't bother about that person!

  Amish Tripathi

  Hate, Love Is, Opposites

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• As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it will also lead to apathy, excessive obedience, uncritical conformity, lack of resistance against authoritarian discourse, self-abnegation, and fear of freedom.

  Paulo Freire

  Children, Self, Discipline

  Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

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• The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.

  John Kennedy Toole

  New Orleans, Hands, Despair

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.181, LSU Press

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• Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ice, Lenses, Burning

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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 this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.

  Winston Churchill

  Dog, Men, Agriculture

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lifted from apathy and ignorance. I write because of a compulsion to make something out of the nothing that is my own life.

  F. Sionil José

  Writing, Ignorance, May

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• Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.

  Dan Brown

  Dark, Men, Law

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• It's enthusiasm, not apathy, that makes the world go 'round.

  Tony Alessandra

  World, Enthusiasm, Rounds

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• 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.

  Amish Tripathi

  Hate, Love Is, Gone

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• Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered.

  James Forten

  Tyrants, America, Long

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• When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.

  Rollo May

  Flare Up, Mad, Feelings

  "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May, Ch. 1: Introduction: Our Schizoid World, p. 31, 1969.

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• 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.

  Scott Woods

  Hate, Ignorance, White Privilege

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• Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness.

  Winkie Pratney

  Revival, Holy, Shock

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• Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

  Laurence Overmire

  Poison, Body, Way

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• The worst crimes against humanity in the last half of the previous century and this century are carried out with conventional advanced weapons, upgraded daily by a greedy arms industry, super power's apathy and criminal ideologies. In the Middle East, Iran lags behind many other military powers in this respect.

  Ilan Pappe

  Military, Iran, Humanity

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The opposite of love is apathy or hatred.

  Aline Brosh McKenna

  Love Is, Opposites, Hatred

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

  Winston Churchill

  Saint George, Drunk, Ireland And The Irish

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• Helping survivors of residential schools in Canada is not the same as the UN sending in peacekeepers to prevent the genocide in Rwanda. But both are a reflection of our culture and of our priorities. Where there is empathy there is always a solution, where there is apathy there is always an excuse.

  Payam Akhavan

  School, Reflection, Empathy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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