Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.
We 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.
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
If I look at the mass I will never act.
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
Scientists talk about dark matter, the invisible, mysterious substance that occupies the space between stars. Dark matter makes up 99.99 percent of the universe, and they don't know what it is. Well I do. It's apathy. That's the truth of it; pile together everything we know and care about in the universe and it will still be nothing more than a tiny speck in the middle of a vast black ocean of Who Gives a Fuck.
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral.
The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
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.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
In lazy apathy let stoics boastTheir virtue fix
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life but that it bothers him less and less.
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