#apathy

A lot of you cared, just not enough. ↗

— Jay Asher

#suicide #tragedy #reason

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#depression #grief #violence

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. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#literary-criticism #obscurity #writing #authority

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#apathy #apolitical #determinism #historical-determinism #history

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#care #hey #i #ignorance #know

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy. ↗

— William Whitelaw

#around #country #going #harold #stirring

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. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#citizen #dangerous #democracy #oligarchy #prince

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. ↗

— Joe Strummer

#around #complete #hippies #just #now

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens. ↗

— Mike Quade

#around #baseball #fan #go #happens

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. ↗

— David Wong

#humor #science #stars #universe #humor