Apathy Quote by Letty Cottin Pogrebin Download Open image “Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.” — Letty Cottin Pogrebin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Apathy Defense Powerless Self Self defense
Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“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… — Ken Wytsma Copy Share Image
The acknowledgment of powerlessness does empower. We humans are powerless over a whole host of factors and conditions in the world, and mostly we're… — Peg O'Connor Copy Share Image
We do not discuss apathy in our society. For some it is too difficult a subject to approach, for some they do not think… — Max Farrell Copy Share Image
Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously - I have… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child's approval, more alert to the child's emotional state, and more sensitive in… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blueeyes or small feet. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes… In mid-nineteenth- century France,… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin 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
“It takes more than one kick in the pants to reverse a lifetime of unplanned apathy.” — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image
“Use the apathy of your logic to solve your problems and then the passion of your soul to enjoy life after that.” — Angelos Michalopoulos Copy Share Image
