#apathy

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

We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the finer shades of despair are lost to us. We've ceased to be runners. We plod from structure to conveyance to employment and back again. We live within the boundaries that science has determined for us. The measuring stick is short and sweet. The full gamut of life is a brief, shadowy continuum that runs from gray to more gray. The rainbow is bleached. We hardly know how to doubt anymore. (“The Thing”) ↗

— Richard Matheson

#aspiration #progress #life

It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#causes #charity #donations #giving #holidays

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

i will admit there's a certain degree of giving a fuck that goes into not giving a fuck. by saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your terms. ↗

— David Levithan

#care

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy. ↗

— William Bernbach

#apathy #breeds #communications #familiarity #familiarity breeds

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

— Jimmy Buffett

#care #hey #i #ignorance #know

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#before #breaks #change #darkest #despair

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#beyond #cynicism #deep #into #moved

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. ↗

— Helen Keller

#beings #cure #evils #found #human