Apathy Quote by Laurence Overmire Download Open image “Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.” — Laurence Overmire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Apathy Body Poison Politics Tyranny Way
“Apathy is passionless living. It is sitting in front of the television night after night and living your life from one moment of entertainment to the next. It is the inability to be shocked into action by the steady-state lostness and suffering of the world. It is the emptiness that comes from thinking of godliness as the avoidance of doing… — John Piper Copy Share
toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
“Gentleness is not apathy but is an aggressive expression of how we view people. We see people as so valuable that we deal with… — Gayle D. Erwin Copy Share Image
“Voter apathy was, and will remain the greatest threat to democracy.” — Hazen Pingree Copy Share Image
To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal need. Political time moves at a snail's pace because it is only with nearly insurmountable difficulty that moral discomfort takes root in the best of people, forcing an imperative out of a complaint; so viscerally repugnant is it… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share
“As long as we insist on hanging on to our hate, the world will not know peace.” — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“All of our ancestors live within each one of us whether we are aware of it or not.” — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“We have listened to the voices of hate, the voices of selfish unreason for far too long. Only the voices of peace will lead… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“Cupid's bloody bow is strung with a million hearts, wisdom bought at a terrible price, and love laid to rest on the river of… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“It takes no genius to destroy. The creators, the givers, the lovers, the healers - these are the heroes who know - the building… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“Extremism is marked by a closed mind and a meanness of spirit - unwilling to listen, unwilling to reason, unwilling to compromise, unwilling to… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
When you look at a person who's different and see Yourself, then you begin to understand who and what God really is. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“All of our ancestors give us the precious gift of life. Do we use it wisely? Do we use it well? Do we make… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
If possible, I want to hear POLITICS defined without either sympathy or apathy. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Try to greet troubles with apathy. Hello's are never what they used to be. — The Swellers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
“And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Just because a person is silent doesn’t mean there’s no message.” — Frank Sonnenberg Copy Share Image
“If someone with a high level of authority were to ask me, "Suzy, how can we make people so incredibly stupid and apathetic, so… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“The fundamental basis by which the court’s decision might be made is, in itself, imperfect and subject to contradictions. There is very little consideration… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“The young woman had read a good many novels, and she had seen a good many films; this education by newspaper, serial and film… — Maurice Renard Copy Share Image