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“Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great collective passion of our time.”

Today Together Passion Bounds Our Time Collectives Apathy

Author:Milan Kundera

“Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.”

People Today Past Form Political Black Effort Leader Moral Exercise Suicide Privilege Indifference Voting Apathy Polls Black History Apathetic Moral Failure

Book:A Martin Luther King Treasury

Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury

“Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.”

Long Running Add Apathy Cowardice Long Runs

Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“It is far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism, for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one.”

Giving Important Anarchy Apathy Despotism

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.”

Response Complicated Intense Cures Characteristics Apathy Organisms Stimulus Comprehension Living Organisms

Author:John Dos Passos

“The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.”

Modern Confusion Voting Voters Apathy Reformers

Book:The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.”

Sin Worst Apathy Indifferent

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it.”

Knows Humans Care Apathy Scratches Powerlessness

Author:Quinn Norton

“Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.”

Today Interest Scientist Claims Cures Apathy

Author:George Carlin

“I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.”

Littles Sound Please Empty Praise Graves Indifference Apathy Censure Tranquillity Miscarriage Frigid

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Indifference creates an artificial peace.”

Indifference Apathy Artificial

Author:Mason Cooley

“Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.”

Excellent Indifference Substitutes Apathy Indifference And Apathy

Author:Mason Cooley

“Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.”

Men Indifference Apathy Indifferent Miscellaneous Accomplices

Book:Language and Silence

Source: Language and Silence

“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.”

Art Age Form Youth Cold Injustice Old Age Indifference Apathy Decline Depravity Premature Perversion Miscarriage Degeneration Grumbling Indifference And Apathy

Author:Anton Chekhov

“He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.”

Men May Hands Asks Fate Events He Man Thousand Lays Fortune Curiosity Apathy Prophecy Inertia Submissive Forfeit Dexterity Fortune Teller

Book:Selected Writings: 1913-1926

Source: Selected Writings: 1913-1926

“People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.”

People Political Humanity Grief Deny Boundaries Apathy

Author:Robert Jensen

“Stability can be a good thing, but it can also lead to apathy. I don't want to set that example for my children. I want them to believe in their dreams and to go after them. You do that by example.”

Want Believe Children Dream Example Good Things My Children Stability Apathy

Author:Michael Easton

“I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.”

People Ifs Knows Enough Problem Forget Vision Technology Industry Happenings Wide Setting Settings Apathy Elsewhere Shiny Things

Author:Theo de Raadt

“Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.”

Universe Politics Wall Apathy Indifferent Insects Bangs

Author:Don Henley

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