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 | "A university professor set an examination question in which he asked
what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to
give an A+ to a student who answered: I don"t know and I don"t
care." | |
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Richard Pratt
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| "Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand." | |
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Bodie Thoene
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| "I don"t know why. You don"t know why. Most likely God doesn"t know
why, either. It"s just Government business, that"s all." | |
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Unknown
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| "I don"t know. But I"ve watched them here for twenty years and I"ve
seen the change. They used to rush through here, and it was wonderful to
watch, it was the hurry of men who knew where they were going and were
eager to get there. Now they"re hurrying because they are afraid. It"s not
a purpose that drives them, it"s fear. They"re not going anywhere, they"re
escaping. And I don"t think they know what it is that they want to escape.
They don"t look at one another. They jerk when brushed against. They smile
too much, but it"s an ugly kind of smiling: it"s not joy, it"s pleading. I
don"t know what it is that"s happening to the world." | |
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Ayn Rand
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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." | |
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Helen Adams Keller
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| "The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of
arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead
to apathy and indifference, the I-don?t-care reaction, or to a more
intensified desire to study and to understand. Unfortunately, the first
reaction is the more popular one." | |
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Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo, MD
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| "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to
do nothing." | |
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Edmund Burke
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| "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." | |
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Elie Wiesel
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| "The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the
public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy." | |
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Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
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| "The worst sin towards our fellow creature is not to hate them, but
to be indifferent to them: that?s the essence of inhumanity." | |
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Josh Billings
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| "The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but
to be indifferent to them: that?s the essence of inhumanity." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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