142 quotes found
“Apathy.The reason you may wake up one day being not only a 2nd class citizen, but a criminal because of who you are - and then wonder why 'somebody' didn't do something when there was still time?”
“I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer.”
“We're walking with our eyes on everyone else, ignoring the screams that come from the people buried alive underneath our feet. Yet we say we're here for each other and say we care. And we hypocriti...”
“To be poor is to suffer. It's the kind of suffering that freezes the heart stone cold.”
“A lot of you cared, just not enough.”
“I suddenly felt that it was all the same to me whether the world existed or whether there had never been anything at all: I began to feel with all my being that there was nothing existing. At first...”
“If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for.”
“And remember, silence is all it takes to validate evil and remember, indifference is all it takes to endorse it.”
“You'll learn. Silence and apathy are the best ways of saying Fuck You”
“Apathy is, too often, a result of overexposure to stressful, highly emotional situations. To rekindle empathy, sometimes we need some space. It's okay to walk away so that you can feel love for som...”
“...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and...”
“Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.”
“Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom.”
“A complete atheist stands on the next-to-last upper step to the most complete faith (he may or may not take that step), while the indifferent one has no faith, apart from a bad fear.”
“One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper was not hostile; he was not opposed to them, but his inn was crowded;...”
“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)”
“We may not choose apathy, but when we choose anything other than love and empathetic justice, we get apathy by default.”
“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.”
“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.”
