Apathy Quotes
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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."
"A lot of you cared, just not enough."
"HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)"
"...the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel"something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them."
"When relationships fail it is usually because someone chooses not to show up for the battle."
"I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works."
"After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was."
"You can present the material, but you can't make me care."
"Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you."
"A lion of truth never assumes anything without validity. Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother."
"I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult."
"...the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them."
"I'm a believer. I believe in the goodness of life. I believe in the brotherhood of mankind. I believe in humanity."
"Scientists talk about dark matter, the invisible, mysterious substance that occupies the space between stars. Dark matter makes up 99.99 percent of the universe, and they don't know what it is. Well I do. It's apathy. That's the truth of it; pile together everything we know and care about in the universe and it will still be nothing more than a tiny speck in the middle of a vast black ocean of Who Gives a Fuck."
"You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains."
"Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"While ignorance might be bliss, apathy can be deadly."
"Give into hope, I say, for fear will only paralyze. It is better to life a life of love amidst the pain than a life of apathy."
"We may not choose apathy, but when we choose anything other than love and empathetic justice, we get apathy by default."
Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things
"We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")"
"Apathy is not compatible with love"
"Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum qtd. in Halter)"
Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things
"When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long."
"At the end of the day--of almost any day, regardless of what we have done or left undone--apathy tells us that it's perfectly acceptable to live with illusions of our own justice."
Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things
"A subtle reason for apathy is that justice rarely has much to do with our lives. Unless we've personally been victims of injustice, we can take for granted that life is generally fair."
Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things
"Apathy is sustainable only as long as injustice doesn't harm us--and we don't care that it's harming others. Apathy lasts only until injustice knocks on our door, and we're forced to look into its eyes."
Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things
"The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance."
"To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"This is a day of celebration!Today, we are divorcing the pastand marrying the present.Dance,and you will find Godin every room.Today, we are divorcing resentmentand marrying forgiveness.Sing,and God will find you in every tune.Today, we are divorcing indifferenceand marrying love.Drink, and play that tambourine against your thighs.We have so much celebrating to do!"
"In the last 10 years, we have seen a rise in selfishness: selfies, self-absorbed people, superficiality, self-degradation, apathy, and self-destruction. So I challenge all of you to take initiative to change this programming. Instead of celebrating the ego, let's flip the script and celebrate the heart. Let's put the ego and celebrity culture to sleep, and awaken the conscience. This is the battle we must all fight together to win back our humanity. To save our future and our children."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"I concluded that the best thing for me and for those around me was to want nothing, to be enthusiastic about nothing, to be as unmotivated as possible, in fact, so that I would never again hurt anyone."
"If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference."
"I might define a ‘journey’ as something that life itself calls me to. And I might then define a ‘trip’ as something I create to avoid a journey by mimicking a journey. And while fear is most certainly part and parcel of both, the latter is emboldened by fear while the former surrenders to it."
"Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort."
"Apathy is unconditional surrender where we are driven into hiding by unrealistic fear, and firmly held there by the misinformed belief that we are helpless to do anything other than hide. Therefore, apathy survives solely on lies and can be completely abated by truth."
"Even if there is no connection.Even if you are far from reach.Even if friendship is not enough.Even if love itself is not enough.What about apathy?I need you."
"Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good."
"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things."
"Congratulations.You've just been demoted from the "pity" sector to the "apathy" sector.To check the validity of this offer you can ask if anyone cares.To cancel your subscription, go get a life.Thank you."
"You will try to improve me, Captain, but I tell you it cannot be done. I am resigned to moral apathy and corporeal decrepitude, and have done with projections. No, Captain,” with a pining sigh, “I think I will simply sit in the shade and wait for either a customer or death, the latter I might prefer, at such a point."
"Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism."
"What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral."
"Chaos brings movement to whatever is stagnant in your life. Stagnation leads to apathy, numbness, illness, suffering, etc. Be grateful for the situations in your life that may seem chaotic in the present moment, and realize that, in the greater scheme of things, chaos is Spirit giving you an opportunity… or possibly pushing you to move, grow, and be in the flow."
"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers."
"Apathy is the door to ignorance. Empathy is the door to wisdom."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"The gut is the seat of all feeling."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless."
"I don't need people, love or sex. Neither money, clothes or cars. The hate I gained was most needed. Don't understand me in the wrong way. It's been a while and the loathing turns into indifference, which now solves my problems."
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