"Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people."
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"Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice."
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"The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
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"Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy"
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"The worst sin... is... to be indifferent."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach."
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"We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy towards apathy, isolation, passivity, helplessness and separation."
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"the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension."
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"To do peace, you must get up off your apathy."
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"My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism."
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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."
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"Darkness feeds on apathy."
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"Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom."
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"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."
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"Apathy is grossly undervalued and never there for me when I need it."
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"Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making."
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