* Nothing is more conducive to peace
of mind than not having any opinion
at all.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg,
Aphorisms (1764-99)
* Once you have glimpsed the world
as it might be, as it ought to be,
as it's going to be (however that
vision appears to you), it is
impossible to live compliant and
complacent anymore in the world as
it is.
- Victoria Safford in "The Small
Work in the Great Work" in The
Impossible Will Take a Little While:
A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time
of Fear (2004) by Paul Rogat Loeb
* Indifference, if let alone, will
produce obduracy; and obduracy, if
let alone, will produce torment.
- Henry Melvill, reported in Josiah
Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of
Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
(1895), p. 344.
* Bad officials are elected by good
citizens who do not vote.
- George Jean Nathan
* There are few signs in a soul's
state more alarming than that of
religious indifference, that is, the
spirit of thinking all religions
equally true— the real meaning of
which is, that all religions are
equally false.
- Frederick William Robertson,
reported in Josiah Hotchkiss
Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words
of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 344.
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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.
- George Bernard Shaw, The Devil's
Disciple (1897)
* He who has never hoped can never
despair.
- George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and
Cleopatra (1906)
* He who does not punish evil
commands it to be done.
- Leonardo da Vinci
* Harold Wilson is going around the
country stirring up apathy.
- William Whitelaw
* Apathy is the glove in which evil
slips its hand.
- "Prof. McDoogle" in National
Lampoon's Van Wilder
* The opposite of love is not hate,
it is apathy. Apathy is when you
would do nothing for someone. Love
is when you would do anything.
* What's the difference between
ignorance and apathy? I don't know
and I don't care.
- Variant: Which is worse: ignorance
or apathy? I don't know and I don't
care.
* Apathy can only be spread by those
who do not bother to do anything
about it.
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