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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.
Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people.
Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it.
I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.
HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.
Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.
Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be.
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?
Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.
The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.
We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been pretty foul.
I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.
Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.
It is far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism, for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one.
Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.
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.
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.
Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.
No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.
Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.
Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong.
By refusing to give 16- and 17-year olds the vote, the Conservative Government are risking worsening voter apathy and being on the wrong side of history.
By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."
I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.
For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.
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.
General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.
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.
Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.
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.
Without the confidence to know our democracy is functioning properly, we risk more disillusionment, more cynicism, and even more public apathy toward the entire system.
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.
Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.
Apathy is so hard not to feel in this world that I see it and the devil walking hand in hand ruining our world. We can take more control by being conscious to start with.