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"Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy I don't know and I don't care." »William Safire
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"apathy isn't it. We can do something. So flower power didn't work. So what. We start again." »John Lennon
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"There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion." »Carl Jung
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"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy." »Dr.
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"When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account." »Haniel Long
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"In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire." »Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage." »Alexander Fraser Tyler, Cycle of Democracy (1770)
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"God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom." »Johann von Goethe
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"Ignorance, apathy, and lethargy cause the most problems in our world. People don't know what's going on, they don't care, and they're too lazy to find out." »Michael Masukawa
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"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment." »Robert Hutchins
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"Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love." »Frank Moore Colby
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"Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings." »Helen Keller
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"Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings." »Helen Keller
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"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings." »Hellen Keller
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"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings." »Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927
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"apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice." »Arnold J. Toynbee
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"Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center." »Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
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