#apathy

If I look at the mass I will never act. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#apathy #genocide #helplessness #inspirational #power

Things will happen that you can’t prevent, things will fall apart that you can’t hold together, but ultimately you’re shaping yourself and that final product speaks volumes about who you really are, not what people see you as or what you want to be. ↗

— Erik Tomblin

#fear #future #humor #inspirational #life-lessons

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#dead #enough #every #hasten #leap

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. ↗

— James Goldsmith

#immediate #neighbors #tolerance #tremendous #virtue

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 M. Hutchins

#assassination #death #democracy #extinction #indifference

Giulio was against our meeting. He didn't want me getting mixed up in things that, in his opinion, were no concern of mine. For decades the respectable people here did nothing but repeat that the Mafia was no concern of theirs but only involved the people involved in it. But I used to teach my pupils that the see-nothing, know-nothing attitude is the most mortal of sins. So now that its my turn to tell what I saw, I'm supposed to take a step back? ↗

— Andrea Camilleri

#attitude

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#apathy #compassion #images #communication

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#boredom #cynism #ennui #humor #death

But he said to his wife, sitting next to him on the couch in the TV room, that rarely had he seen a funeral at which it seemed like almost nobody in attendance had any idea why they were there. His wife, who had heard things like this from him before, reminded him of a ceremony he had presided over only a few months ago about which he had had the same reaction. 'Oh right,' the minister said. 'Yes. That one was much worse.' He leaned down to the coffee table and picked up the remote. ↗

— Mark Wallace

#death #humor #death

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#capitalism #inevitability #inspirational #marxism #resistance