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“But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.”

Nations Grows Liberty Ease Apathy Bondage

Author:John Milton

“One should not associate with controversy; one should always reach for the highest ratings; one should never forget that there is safety in numbers; one should always remember that comedy, adventure, and escapism provide the best atmosphere for selling.”

Should Remember Forget Numbers Comedy Adventure Highest Safety Selling Atmosphere Never Forget Apathy Associates Controversy Rating Escapism Safety In Numbers

Author:Peter George Peterson

“Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.”

Use Lasts Force Waiting Prayer Late Too Late Apathy Incompetent Extremity

Book:A Slave Is a Slave

Source: A Slave Is a Slave

“That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.”

Thinking States Forget Known Percent Constitution Western Apathy Forget It Dakota

Author:Ezra Pound

“Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.”

Individual Sacrifice Republic Apathy Ungrateful Personal Sacrifice

Author:Epes Sargent

“The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude.”

Feels States Seems Government Answers Gratitude Prove Built Structure Privilege Conservative Welfare Conception Apathy Citizenship Bureaucracy Reluctant Welfare State

Author:Roger Scruton

“It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them.”

World Wells Children Different Real Stories Used Evil Opinion Teach Failing Ignorance Lessons Intellectual Folks Tales Perceive Real World Dedicated Apathy Journal

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.”

World Self Nations Grows Security Comfort Satisfaction Plenty Bored Rebellion Apathy Cynicism Sloth Destroyers Submerged Self-satisfaction

Book:America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

“Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.”

Thinking Humans Lying Human Beings Anarchy Apathy

Author:Rod Serling

“Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than a community which looks upon its perpetration with apathy and unconcern.”

Looks Law Community Sin Moral Conditions Ought Punishment Look Up Apathy Wrath

Author:Lyman Abbott

“The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead to apathy and indifference, the I-don't-care reaction, or to a more intensified desire to study and to understand. Unfortunately, the first reaction is the more popular one.”

Mind Firsts Kind May Two Care Desire Differences Study Argument Don't Care Reactions Noise I Don't Care Propaganda Indifference Apathy Intrusion

Author:Joost Meerloo

“What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.”

Men Eye Christian Evil Deeds Wicked Good Life Apathy Pointing Malice Condemning Wicked Man

Book:The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)

Source: The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)

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

War Character Government Liberty Principles Virtue Honesty Integrity Anti War Apathy Antiwar Decay Deterioration

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.”

Ifs Whole Truth Found Existence Apathy

Author:Rajneesh

“Step by step we see democracy being uprooted like an unwanted weed and the preparation for fascism, for a police state in America. The Congress is largely complicit. The media is supportive. The public is apathetic. By the time apathy is reversed, there may be little opportunity to restore what was lost without massive effort and pain.”

May Littles States Government Pain America Opportunity Lost Effort Steps Democracy Media Police Congress Preparation Massive Weed Fascism Apathy Supportive Unwanted Police State Apathetic

Author:Stan Moore

“Evil feeds off a source of apathy, weak in the mind, and of course you have to be. Less than a man, more like a thing, no knowledge you're nothing, knowledge is king.”

Men Mind Song Courses Evil Source Kings Weak Apathy

Author:Kool Moe Dee

“The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.”

World Inspirational Whole Found Consciousness Ultimate Disappear Whole World Apathy Nothingness Cyclones

Author:Rajneesh

“When you open up to the ultimate, immediately it pours into you. You are no longer an ordinary human being - you have transcended. Your insight has become the insight of the whole existence. Now you are no longer separate - you have found your roots.”

Humans Whole Found Human Beings Existence Ordinary Roots Ultimate Insight Apathy

Author:Rajneesh

“Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.”

Men Real Soul States Spirit Growth Consciousness Knowing Involved Normal Awake Cosmos Endeavor Apathy Sensibility Stimulus Enchanted Responsiveness

Book:The earth is the Lord's, and The Sabbath

Source: The earth is the Lord's, and The Sabbath

“We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.”

Needs Apathy Cynicism Civility

Author:Antanas Mockus

“It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia, apathy and laziness, (known in Sankrit as the quality of tapas) that overwhelms this age. Despite this seemingly gloomy prognosis, there is a way out of this predicament for those with the will and stamina to awaken from the rampant lethargy, within and outside of themselves, to take action.”

Way Humans Age Action Spiritual Human Beings Quality Known Dues Despite Liberation Apathy Gravity Laziness Gloomy Inertia Stamina Predicaments Lethargy Kali Prognosis Tapas Kali Yuga

Author:Zeena Schreck

“Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When you have an immoral society that has blatantly, proudly, violated all of the commandments of God, there is one last virtue they insist upon: tolerance for their immorality.”

Lasts Virtue Dying Tolerance Apathy Commandments Immoral Immorality Depraved Commandments Of God

Author:D. James Kennedy

“In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of one’s grandchildren, and since these are institutional maladies, they will not be easy to overcome. While much remains uncertain, we can assure ourselves, with fair confidence, that future generations will not forgive us our silence and apathy.”

“There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.”

Action Late Too Late Apathy Complacency Urgency Vigorous

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.”

Position Atheist Abandon Apathy Retreat

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!”

“The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy.' I'm like, 'What?' I don't walk up to a friend and go 'That's a stylin' looking vortex of apathy you've got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself.'”

Use Walks Huge Band Rivers Deceit Swimming Apathy Kill Me Pals Vortex

Author:Devin Townsend

“No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional turmoil, fear of isolation or thoughts of failure, keep in mind that if you are positive, positivity will find you and embrace you!”

“Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people.”

People Majority Reactions Rational Addresses Apathy

Author:Russell Brand

“Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.”

Men Sometimes Mother Love Is Rooms Grief He Man Keys Kitchen Apathy Locked Bedroom Bathroom Hammers

Author:Warsan Shire

“Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life - is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today.”

Self Problem Today Life Is Term Self Confidence Defined Apathy Inability Lack Of Self Confidence Disempowerment

Author:Wangari Maathai

“The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

Life Is Opposites Indifference Apathy Ugliness Indifference And Apathy Love Not Hate Hate My Life I Hate My Life

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.”

Ends Action Mistake Hero Circumstances Despair Victim Active Remembered Making Mistakes Apathy Cynicism Passive Antidote Victims Of Circumstance

Author:Bradley Whitford

“History will have to recordThat the greatest tragedy of this period of social transitionWas not the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad peopleBut the appalling silence and indifference of the good.Our generation will have to repent notOnly for the words and actions of the children of darknessBut also for the fears and apathy of thechildren of light.”

Children Light Action Social Silence Courage Generations Periods Tragedy Violent Indifference Apathy Repent Bad People Our Generation Words And Actions

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.”

Moving Responsibility Teacher Ignorance Civilization Enlightenment Apathy

Author:Sharon M. Draper

“At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.”

Children Home Lost Awareness Source Capacity Shakes Apathy Exhilaration Attentiveness

Author:John W. Gardner

“You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.”

People Self Action Joy Choices Force Growth Greater Tears Despair Mercy Apathy Select Stagnation

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.”

Matter Hate Kindness Despair No Matter What Indifference Engagement Inspirational Love Apathy Love Hate Power Of Choice

Author:Cory Booker

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”

“When we speak of a calm state of mind or peace of mind, we shouldn't confuse that with an insensitive state of apathy. Having a calm or peaceful state of mind doesn't mean being spaced out or completely empty. Peace of mind or a calm state of mind is rooted in affection and compassion and is sensitive and responsive to others.”

Mind Mean States Speak Compassion Empty Calm Affection Peaceful Sensitive Peace Of Mind State Of Mind Apathy Rooted Calmness Insensitive Responsiveness

Author:Dalai Lama

“The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference”

Opposites Indifference Apathy Ugliness Heresy Indifference And Apathy Love Not Hate Hate My Life I Hate My Life

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.”

Real Evil Monsters Apathy Agoraphobia

Author:J. K. Rowling

“The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.”

“There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.”

“By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."”

Home Process Natural Endure Tyranny Tyrants Apathy Helpless Surveillance

Author:Mark Twain

“Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination.”

Related Apathy Procrastination Linked Faithfulness Punctuality Dependability Slothfulness

Author:Sterling W Sill

“Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.”

Thinking Real Form Evil Space Terror Monsters Apathy Agoraphobia Choosing To Live

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth is the "morality" that the ineffable puts upon us, our unaccountable imperatives, our inexplicably selective clarity and obscurity, the mortal one-sidedness of our talents and wits, the passion and apathy that make such a transient passage through our hapless minds; that weave a pattern of fatality others will see before we do. Myth is distinctively human or sublime higher-order instinct, the "reason" in culture that reason knows not of.”

“In today's world where, more than ever, the ongoing concentration of money and power in the hands of a self-selected few, relies on political and public apathy, Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.”

“Even as we slog through the trials, persecutions, irritations, temptations, distractions, apathy, and just plain weariness of this world, the gospel points us to heaven where our King Jesus — the Lamb of God who was crucified in our place and raised gloriously from the dead — now sits interceding for us. Not only so, but it calls us forward to that final day when heaven will be filled with the roaring noise of millions upon millions of forgiven voices hailing him as crucified Savior and risen King.”

Source: What Is the Gospel?

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