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Tag Name "Apathy" (237)

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When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use to get their man. Constitutional guarantees are regarded as bothersome technicalities that impede honest law enforcers in the performance of their duties.
Donna Woolfolk Cross
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If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.
Samuel Johnson
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My own apathy is bone chilling.
Lionel Shriver
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A lot of people felt defeated and hopeless by Trump's election. But I feel his election should energize people to resist apathy, ignorance, sexism, xenophobia, and racism.
Shepard Fairey
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Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.
Tom Hanks
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Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you.
Alyson Noel
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These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence when originality is taken to be a mark of instability and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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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.
Oswald Chambers
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I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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Apathy borders upon folly.
Publilius Syrus
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
Terry Pratchett
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Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.
B. F. Skinner
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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
Thomas Carlyle
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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.
Alexander Pope
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Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Until you've faced a crowd of graduating seniors, you have not experienced apathy.
Gillian Roberts
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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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.
Kool Moe Dee
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Do you believe in apathy at first sight?
Ashleigh Brilliant
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Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
Horace Greeley
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Care is a state in which something does matter care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness.
Rollo May
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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.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
Terry Pratchett
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