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• The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Dangerous Situations, Apathy, Temper

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• The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and seas has degenerated in its realization to the socialized and apathetic behavior of passengers who hardly look out the windows.

  Paul Goodman

  Dream, Stars, Men

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 144), 1956.

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• People listen for cues - when they are searching for a decision, they look to people they know. Young people can be apathetic in certain ways unless they hear from someone they like and admire about why they should be engaged and involved. If someone you love is doing a rally or concert, you may be engaged to register.

  Hill Harper

  Love Is, People, Decision

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw. And his quote was, 'The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.' I know it's not very funny being a comedian talking about the Holocaust, but I think it's an interesting idea that not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite. They just had to be apathetic.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Thinking, Talking, Ideas

  "The brilliance of Sacha Baron Cohen" by Harry Phibbs, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2009.

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• My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within. This is my calling, to open doors of truth and make people think, to arouse others from their apathetic and lethargic state, and get them to seek out for themselves the inner peace which dwells within. This is the extent of my undertaking, I can do no more. The rest I leave to a higher power.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Thinking, Doors, People

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.128, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands.... The naive might call that democracy, but that's because they don't understand. The sophisticated understand that that's the crisis of democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Political, Democracy

  "Manufacturing Consent". Noam Chomsky's Lecture at the University of Wisconsin in in Madison, Wisconsin, March 15, 1989.

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• Stay positive, joyful, and optimistic in your activism, even in the face of adversity. Understand that most people continue to consume animal products because they are unaware of the hidden cost - animal cruelty - not because they are bad or apathetic. Offer information, support, and resources in a friendly and supportive manner, as few people have begun their journey toward a compassionate lifestyle by being shamed or ridiculed. Turn anger and frustration into motivation to be as effective as possible.

  Nathan Runkle

  Motivation, Optimistic, Adversity

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• Desaparecidos try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic.

  Conor Oberst

  America, Opposites, People

  Source: www.ew.com

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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 jaded cunts, in a scene we hate, a city we hate, pretending that we're at the center of the universe, trashing ourselves with crap drugs to stave off the feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, aware that all we're doing is feeding that paranoia and disenchantment, yet somehow we're too apathetic to stop. Cause, sadly, there's nothing else of interest to stop for.

  Irvine Welsh

  Hate, Real, Somewhere Else

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• No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and marginalized who bear the brunt of the surveillance, leading those who support the government or are merely apathetic to mistakenly believe they are immune. And history shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, Believe, Government

  Glenn Greenwald (2014). “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State”, p.10, Penguin UK

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• Being a geek is a great thing. I think we're all geeks. Being a geek means you're passionate about something and that defines your uniqueness. I would rather be passionate about something than be apathetic about everything.

  Masi Oka

  Mean, Thinking, Passionate

  "“Heroes'” Masi Oka is super-geeky". Interview with Florangela Davila, www.seattletimes.com. May 14, 2007.

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• We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.

  Kevin Costner

  Success, Needs, Attention

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• The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a safe code of conduct - one that would earn everyone's approval. Your actions can always be condemned by someone - for being too bold or too apathetic, for being too conformist or too nonconformist, for being too liberal or too conservative. So it's necessary to decide whose approval is important to you.

  Harry Browne

  Important, Realization, Safe

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• There are many fans of hard rock music that have been wrongly pigeonholed as apathetic. This music is not music for the elitist coffeehouse culture in SoHo. It' s rock 'n' roll music for kids across the land, and I think that makes it much more subversive in a way, in that it has the form and the function of a powerful, populist music, but it can carry very incendiary messages.

  Tom Morello

  Powerful, Kids, Thinking

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• No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.

  Anthony Marais

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Ifs

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• By the 1970s, the American woman was being called 'liberated' or 'superwoman' while the American man was being called 'baby killer' if he fought in Vietnam, 'traitor' if he protested, or 'apathetic' if he did neither. Even men who came home paraplegics were literally spit on.

  Warren Farrell

  Baby, Home, Men

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Passion, Europe

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• I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.

  Martha Graham

  Kissing, Dislike Me, Audience

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Rivers, People

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Sexing The Cherry”, p.123, Random House

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• I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight them at your desk hopelessly; then you lose both the day and your self-respect. Treat them as physical phenomena -- casually -- and obey them.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Fighting, Self, Giving

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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• Why are the mainstream buzz things rarely contemporary? It doesn't happen very often. It's hard to feel culpable or implicated or even apathetic.

  Paul Beatty

  Buzz, Mainstream, Feels

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the empty-headed shrine of scientific materialism?

  Rob Brezsny

  Bored, Shrines, Sentimental

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• My generation in the UK, they're very apathetic, a lot of them.

  Thea Gilmore

  Generations, My Generation

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think we've unplugged and become very apathetic to a lot of things that are happening. There's so much going on and we're sort of disconnected.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Thinking, Disconnected, Happenings

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• America is basically a hypocritical society and recognizes that hypocrisy is found throughout. The public doesn't look for politicians to tell the truth or to deliver on their promises. This country could become America the beautiful, but it never will. It's in the hands of the wrong people. And the public is so apathetic. Those who are not apathetic are dispirited, discouraged, and disheartened. Those who will sometimes feel a twitch of inspiration that would lead them to do something, they, based on their conditioning, will start to total up all the reasons why they can't succeed.

  Ernie Chambers

  Beautiful, Country, Inspiration

  "The Maverick of Omaha". Interview With Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2006.

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