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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.”

Littles Long Running Action Sin Attention Violence Effects Paid Greed Cruelty Destructive Tragic Aggressive Apathy Laziness Long Runs Passive Violence And Cruelty

Book:You learn by living

Source: You learn by living

“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.”

“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”

Helping Kids Action Joy Choices Return Despair Parenting Revenge Helping Others Apathy Contagious

Author:Kevin Heath

“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.”

Knows Should Science Causes Challenges Secret Boredom Apathy Sheer Revealing Embarrassment Keeping Secrets

Book:Conversations and encounters

Source: Conversations and encounters

“For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.”

Reality Seems Truth Mankind Empathy Majority Appearance Satisfied Deception Propaganda Apathy

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.”

Mind Strong Virtue Exercise Lazy Breasts Retiring Apathy Laziness Boast Frost Being Strong Strength Of Mind

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]

“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.”

Men Christian Heaven Christ Hell Crosses Apathy Easter Religious Easter

Book:The Quotable Oswald Chambers

Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers

“The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.”

World Art Artist Found Feet Photographer Apathy Limitless Being An Artist Famous Artist Doorstep Inspirational Artist Inspiring Art Inspiring Artist

Book:Paul Strand: the world on my doorstep : an intimate portrait

Source: Paul Strand: the world on my doorstep : an intimate portrait

“There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.”

Inspirational Justice Ignorance Diversity Empathy Harder Social Justice Indifference Apathy Softness Indifference And Apathy

Author:Juan Montalvo

“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.”

People Inspirational Feels Culture Politics Decision Roles Media Pressure Constant Propaganda Anarchy Apathy Consumerism Helpless Heresy Popular Culture Media Propaganda

Author:Noam Chomsky

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

Found Bits Refuse Drunk Odd Apathy Ireland Being Irish Ireland And The Irish Irish Beer Funny Irish Irish Drinking Saint George

Author:Winston Churchill

“What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.”

Years School Differences Five Stupid Educational British Dull Five Years Apathy Fourteen Schooled Educational System Nineteen Five Year Olds Inquisitive

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.”

Inspirational Motivational Empathy Difficulty Ghost Apathy Overcoming Fear Repose

Author:Frederic Chopin

“It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.”

Ifs Men Given Common Liberty Break Fate Rights Conditions Crime Eternal Empathy Consequence Guilt Active Punishment Apathy Prey Servitude Vigilance Eternal Vigilance Price Of Freedom

Author:John Philpot Curran

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

Play Liberty Roles Empathy Apathy Extremist Complacent Gadflies

Author:Abraham Flexner

“As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.”

Thinking Government Freedom Levels Liberty Watches Limits Empathy Prosperity Favors Fats Lazy Apathy Indifferent Largesse

Author:Lyn Nofziger

“To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the ability of average people to peacefully, productively coexist without some official policing their every move. The State is merely another human institution - less creative than Microsoft, less reliable than Federal Express, less responsible than the average farmer husbanding his land, and less prudent than the average citizen spending his own paycheck.”

Source: Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen

“Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.”

Loss Grief Compassion Kindness Empathy Ease Fragile Apathy Uncertain Strokes Hostile Ache Vessel Incidents Voyages

Author:William Shakespeare

“When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British parliament was advised by an artful man [Sir William Keith], who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people. That it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. But that they should not do it openly; but to weaken them and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.”

“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.”

Men Dog Dangerous Lays Islam Curse Apathy Frenzy Sluggish Radical Islam Arresting Proselytizing Muslim Faith Religion Of Islam Retrograde

Author:Winston Churchill

“I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.”

Knows Inspirational Said Care Funny Sports Ignorance Son Basketball Don't Care Coaches I Don't Care Nba Apathy Rugby Funny Basketball Afl

Author:Frank Layden

“Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.”

Religion Acceptance Apathy

Book:Through the Bible, Through the Year: Daily Reflections from Genesis to Revelation

Source: Through the Bible, Through the Year: Daily Reflections from Genesis to Revelation

“Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required.”

Ideas Leadership Effort Practice Driven Courageous Good Ideas Apathy Adopted Impatience Follow Up Continuous Effort

Author:Hyman Rickover

“It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change; when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.”

Feels Looks Motivational Night Break Despair Senses Midst Apathy Resurrection Gathering Momentum Fever

Author:Hillary Clinton

“As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.”

Feels Has Beens Government Used Force Grows Powerful Half Liberty Century Habit Mere Apathy Regulation Harness Government Regulation

Author:Robert Bork

“Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek - Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong And dare not speak!”

World Character Earth Lying Speak Virtue Honesty Integrity Empathy Dare Coward Apathy Anguish Mourn Meek Apathetic

Author:Ralph Chaplin

“My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.”

“Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.”

Knows Care Ignorance Speech Empathy Don't Care I Don't Care Thought Provoking Apathy Cynicism Sloppiness

Book:On language

Source: On language

“When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.”

Life Is Individual Causes Ignorance Accounts Apathy Unfortunate

Author:Haniel Long

“Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.”

Helping Motivation Evil Gone Missing Ignorance Filled Solve Make Sense Void Apathy Abolish

Author:Tom Hanks

“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!”

Inspirational May War Soul Body Reality Happens Remember Evil Difficult Struggle Conditions Drug Slave Cease Good And Evil Conformity Apathy Users Accustomed Revolt Adjusting

Author:Mordechai Anielewicz

“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.”

Men War Enough Suffering Responsibility Authority Mass Capable Men And Women Responsible Good Things Etc Lasting Bad Things Anti War Apathy Craving

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“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.”

Ifs Men Writing Mind Stills States Reason Wonder Creative Protect Benefits Train Illness Obvious Seeking Mental Illness Pursue State Of Mind Apathy Engaging Creative Work

Author:Anthony Storr

“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.”

World Giving Writing Mind Materials Reader Empathy Apathy

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy.”

University Curse Apathy Epic

Author:Howard G. Hendricks

“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.”

Believe Mean Country Earth America United Strange Blessing Empathy Neglect Apathy Providence

Book:The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

Source: The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

“If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.”

People Ifs Wells Law Spirit Freedom Liberty Prepared Apathy Tolerate Be Prepared Legislature

Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.”

Love Interest Tolerance Nine Apathy Intolerance Persecution Brotherly Brotherly Love Personal Interest

Book:The pursuit of humor and other essays

Source: The pursuit of humor and other essays

“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. So while I agree with people who say no one is born racist, it remains a powerful system that we're immediately born into. It's like being born into air: you take it in as soon as you breathe.”

People Looks Hate Born Powerful Air Ignorance Racism Agree Remains Privilege Breathe Access Manifestation Just One Racist Apathy

Author:Scott Woods

“People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed, but as a symbol, as a symbol I can be incorruptible. I can be everlasting.”

“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!”

World Needs Years Running White This World Greed Folks Ships Apathy Port Apartheid Cruise Residents Hemisphere Cruise Ships

Book:Dreams From My Father

Source: Dreams From My Father

“Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.”

Wells May Literature Class Middle Crime Middle Class Apathy Suburbs Breeding Slums Delirium Delirium Tremens

Author:Cyril Connolly

“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.”

People Kind Art Self Jobs Force All Kinds Oppression Apathy Cages

Author:Lydia Lunch

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

Prayer Activity Strongest Apathy Display Passiveness

Author:Eric Metaxas

“Voter apathy is a civic abdication.”

Voters Apathy Civics Abdication

Author:Charles M. Blow

“The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.”

Today Political Politics Difficult Decision Circumstances Refuse Apathy

Book:Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945

Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945

“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”

Men Needs Should Looks Ends Good Man Apathy Compass Bad Man

Author:John Stuart Mill

“We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.”

Life Has Beens Justice Liberty Injustice Apathy Injured Outraged

Author:Solon

“Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first learn to liberate their own minds from apathy and fear.”

People Men Mind Firsts Mean Ends States Might Strong Nations Institutions Democratic Guarantees Apathy Aspire Standing Out

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“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.”