Apathy Quotes - Page 8

Darkness feeds on apathy.

Dan Brown

Darkness

Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.862, Random House

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Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

Sharon M. Draper

Teacher, Moving, Ignorance

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

Terry Eagleton

Literary Theory, Inevitable, Know How

"Why Marx Was Right". Book by Terry Eagleton, 2011.

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Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth is the "morality" that the ineffable puts upon us, our unaccountable imperatives, our inexplicably selective clarity and obscurity, the mortal one-sidedness of our talents and wits, the passion and apathy that make such a transient passage through our hapless minds; that weave a pattern of fatality others will see before we do. Myth is distinctively human or sublime higher-order instinct, the "reason" in culture that reason knows not of.

Kenny Smith

Philosophy, Passion, Order

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When you open up to the ultimate, immediately it pours into you. You are no longer an ordinary human being - you have transcended. Your insight has become the insight of the whole existence. Now you are no longer separate - you have found your roots.

Rajneesh

Roots, Ordinary, Found

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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Real, Men, Knowing

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1963). “The earth is the Lord's, and The Sabbath”

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We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.

Antanas Mockus

Needs, Cynicism, Civility

"Citizenship, Colombia-style" by Yvonne Roberts, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia, apathy and laziness, (known in Sankrit as the quality of tapas) that overwhelms this age. Despite this seemingly gloomy prognosis, there is a way out of this predicament for those with the will and stamina to awaken from the rampant lethargy, within and outside of themselves, to take action.

Zeena Schreck

Spiritual, Age, Quality

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Step by step we see democracy being uprooted like an unwanted weed and the preparation for fascism, for a police state in America. The Congress is largely complicit. The media is supportive. The public is apathetic. By the time apathy is reversed, there may be little opportunity to restore what was lost without massive effort and pain.

Stan Moore

Weed, Pain, Opportunity

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History will have to recordThat the greatest tragedy of this period of social transitionWas not the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad peopleBut the appalling silence and indifference of the good.Our generation will have to repent notOnly for the words and actions of the children of darknessBut also for the fears and apathy of thechildren of light.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage, Children, Light

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You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.

Leo Buscaglia

Self, People, Joy

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When we speak of a calm state of mind or peace of mind, we shouldn't confuse that with an insensitive state of apathy. Having a calm or peaceful state of mind doesn't mean being spaced out or completely empty. Peace of mind or a calm state of mind is rooted in affection and compassion and is sensitive and responsive to others.

Dalai Lama

Mean, Compassion, Peaceful

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By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

Mark Twain

Home, Tyrants, Surveillance

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Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity for the story, human feelings and a sense of value for the characters, intelligence and memory for the plot. What does fantasy ask of us? It asks us to pay something extra.

E. M. Forster

Memories, Character, Empathy

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I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.

E. M. Forster

Humility, Two, Empathy

E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.183, RosettaBooks

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The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

David Riesman

Media, People, Empathy

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Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

Anna Katharine Green

Suffering, Existence, Monotony

Anna Katharine Green (2016). “THE FORSAKEN INN (Gothic Mystery Classic): Historical Thriller: Intriguing Novel Featuring Dark Events Surrounding a Mysterious Murder”, p.47, e-artnow

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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

Integrity, Men, Law

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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

Will Durant

Civilization, Decay

Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, Simon and Schuster

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One should not associate with controversy; one should always reach for the highest ratings; one should never forget that there is safety in numbers; one should always remember that comedy, adventure, and escapism provide the best atmosphere for selling.

Peter George Peterson

Adventure, Numbers, Safety

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Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

H. Beam Piper

Prayer, Waiting, Too Late

H. Beam Piper (2010). “A Slave Is a Slave”, p.5, eStar Books

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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.

Ezra Pound

Thinking, Constitution, Forget

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Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.

Epes Sargent

Sacrifice, Ungrateful, Republic

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Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Degrees, Next, Indifference

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I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.

John Steinbeck

Self, Bored, Sloth

John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.318, Penguin

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