“Altizer distinguishes between melancholy as a condition marked principally by a sense of guilt, even a delirium of guilt, and the contemporary… — Alina N. Feld Copy Share Image
Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
“His room was a sickly dual-tone of crimson and charcoal, like an Untitled Rothko, the colours bleeding into each other horribly and… — Moonshine Noire Copy Share Image
“As I get older I can see the patterns, the ugly corporate face behind the great machine. The sad and over competitive… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
“I think our generation has been called to apathy just as our grandparents were called to defeat fascism and the baby boomers… — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image
“Apathy is the bushel basket under which the ego hides its fear of being powerless. It is easier to become apathetic when… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“They say that animals are incapable of feelings and reasoning. This is false. No living thing on earth is void of either.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“It's disgusting," Letty said. "Can you believe - I mean, a Babel graduate, and they just act like he was never here?"… — R.F. Kuang Copy Share Image
“People like to talk shit, but it's usually to justify their own apathy.” — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
“If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For all the evils in the world, I think apathy is one of the most dangerous. — Chris Long Copy Share Image
People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism. — Elliot Richardson Copy Share Image
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent. — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say,… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
There is a distinct difference between contentment and apathy. Contentment endures with gratitude where apathy has ceased to care. — Jordan Blake Michiels Copy Share Image
Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“They wrote to me and said something about it, and I said that if it doesn't involve any work, I'll do it.… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“It was the face of a human being who’d been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but… — Ryu Murakami Copy Share Image
I never liked the atmosphere of Washington . I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
It's just this long overdue. These people [ex-Nazi brought to trial] should be grateful to the apathy that exists there that prevented… — Marvin Hier Copy Share Image
“Things will happen that you can’t prevent, things will fall apart that you can’t hold together, but ultimately you’re shaping yourself and… — Erik Tomblin Copy Share Image
In order to help usher in the golden age we must see the good in people. We must know it is there,… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
People talk about apathy, especially in developed countries. We're kind of lulled into these tranquil lives, and we are pursuing our own… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Since total skepticism about ultimate beliefs is strictly impossible, in that no belief can be doubted except on the basis of some… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
When you get older, you realize something: all those stupid mores and customs related to how a man should comport himself in… — Jason Mulgrew Copy Share Image
“I suddenly felt that it was all the same to me whether the world existed or whether there had never been anything… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Love and happiness inextricably combined? I wanted love stories to coincide with war stories, I wanted hope for my characters, I wanted… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image