#apathy

I was faced more with apathy than opposition. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#faced #i #more #opposition #than

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. ↗

— Rollo May

#hate #love #opposite

The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good. ↗

— Philip Gourevitch

#apathy #auschewitz #evil #genocide #good

I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#freedom

Often, vegan advocates assume that a person's defensiveness is the result of selfishness or apathy, when in fact it is much more likely the result of systematic and intensive social conditioning. ↗

— Melanie Joy

#animal-advocates #animals #apathy #defensiveness #social-condition

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

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#damn #feeling #giving #hate #i