Apathy Quotes - Page 5

• The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.

  Alexander Fraser Tytler

  Spiritual, Average, Years

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• It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

  Tanith Lee

  Intelligent, Disinterest, Existence

  Tanith Lee (2014). “Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition”, p.67, Wildside Press LLC

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• You have many choices. You can choose forgiveness over revenge, joy over despair. You can choose action over apathy..- Stephanie Marston
  Letting your kids see u helping others and not expect anything in return can be contagious

  Kevin Heath

  Revenge, Kids, Parenting

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• The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Opposites, Evil

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not just feeling or desire, but right feeling or desire, or being controlled by feeling or desire.

  Dallas Willard

  Buddhist, Issues, Feelings

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• Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.

  Hannah Arendt

  Evil, Thrive

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• apathy is about as near to the undertaker as you can get.

  Arlene Francis

  Undertaker

  Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

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• toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.

  Dorothee Solle

  Lying, Suffering, Injustice

  Dorothee Sölle (1975). “Suffering”, Fortress Press

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• I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.

  Michelle Rhee

  Deals

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• 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

  Art, Miscarriage, Grumbling

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, December 27, 1889.

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• All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Easter, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.91, Discovery House

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• No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, enthusiasm over lethargy, love over hate. This is our true freedom. Whatever life may throw at us, we have the freedom and ability to choose our attitude. And I believe it is in those moments of choice that we manifest our destiny.

  Cory Booker

  Attitude, Kindness, Hate

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Mar 11, 2010

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• The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality!

  Mordechai Anielewicz

  Inspirational, War, Struggle

  Letter to Yitzhak Cukierman, April 23, 1943.

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• ...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Long, Greed

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.153, Westminster John Knox Press

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• To tell the truth is an act of love. To withhold the truth is an act of hate. Or worse, apathy.

  Gene Kim

  Hate, Telling The Truth, Truth Is

  Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford (2014). “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win”, p.242, IT Revolution

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• Do you believe in apathy at first sight?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Believe, Sight, Firsts

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• I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

  Peggy Noonan

  Boredom, Sailing, Sides

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

  Eric Metaxas

  Prayer, Strongest, Passiveness

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• Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.

  Rod Serling

  Lying, Thinking, Anarchy

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• You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.

  Mike Quade

  Baseball, Fans, Looks

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• Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Education, Ignorance, Lessons

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• Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.

  Trent Reznor

  Luxury, Political, Climate

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• the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.

  Abigail McCarthy

  Average, Citizens, Politics

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• It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.

  Lionel Shriver

  Fall, Might, Holes

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.57, Counterpoint Press

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• To do peace, you must get up off your apathy.

  Yolanda King

  Get Up

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