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Letter "A" » Apathy
«Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.»
«Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand»
Author: Bodie Thoene
| About:
Apathy
| Keywords:
apathy, glove, gloved, gloves, hand and glove, slips
«Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.»
«No one cares. Apathy is a disease and some days I long for it.»
«Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.»
«The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
| About:
Apathy,
Dignity,
Indifference,
Self-confidence,
Self-love
| Keywords:
dignities
«My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whinning about for years.»
Author: Kurt Cobain
(Musician, Singer)
| About:
Apathy
| Keywords:
apathy, counterculture, disgusted, My Generation, racism, sexism, spineless
«By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| About:
Action,
Apathy
| Keywords:
absorption, apathy, bred, by far, carelessness, contempt, foe, indifference, pursuits, self-satisfaction
«Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.»
«So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Apathy,
Laziness,
Sin
| Keywords:
aggressive, apathy, effects, greed, laziness, passive, too little, tragic
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