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For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishF...

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You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every dece...

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Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're j...

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Those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outrig...

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The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.

Even extreme grief may ultimately ventitself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apath...

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He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The dan...

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They all had a thousand good economic and political reasons why they couldn’t stop. I’m not a politi...

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Karel ČapekWar with the Newts

...the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, th...

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Since total skepticism about ultimate beliefs is strictly impossible, in that no belief can be doubt...

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Lesslie NewbiginFoolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

Men have nothing in common with me--there is no point of contact; they have foolish little feelings ...

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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting ag...

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What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

Once conform once do what others do because they do it and a kind of lethargy steals over all the ...

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Following the death of his wife, Sam Johnson wrote to the Reverend Mr. Thomas Warton, "I have ever s...

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If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for.

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Neil GaimanThe Sandman: Endless Nights Special #1

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to...

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I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I...

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We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever...

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We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths....

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Hate is not the opposite of love apathy is.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be sile...

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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The questio...

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Susan SontagRegarding the Pain of Others

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the in...

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Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE...

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Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to p...

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Thomas JeffersonWritings: Autobiography/Notes on the State of Virginia/Public & Private Papers/Addresses/Letters

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurr...

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We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")

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Yevgeny ZamyatinThe Dragon: Fifteen Stories

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire a...

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The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anythin...

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The Americans of the United States do not let their dogs hunt the Indians as do the Spaniards in Mex...

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Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

You can present the material, but you can't make me care.

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Bill WattersonHomicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child c...

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One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child c...

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One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child c...

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One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child c...

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One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child c...

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One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child c...

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One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child c...

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One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child c...

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Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-...

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it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horseor that the hummingbird is so seldomseenor th...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. I...

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Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or ind...

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This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, ...

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If I didn't care for fun and such,I'd probably amount to much.But I shall stay the way I am,Because ...

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...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with al...

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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indif...

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Stay passed out, that's the right dope. There ain't any cool willow trees- except you grow your own ...

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Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair but to he who does not concern us at all.

The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to...

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What makes life dreary is want of motive.

It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I supp...

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Communists have committed great crimes but at least they have not stood aside like an established ...

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Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.

Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - ...

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