Zitat des Tages über Apathie / Apathy:
I always write 'Fight' on the mirrors - that goes way back to the times when you had to fight apathy.
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.
People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.
There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.
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.
The administration has taken its inexcusable apathy a step further, declaring that even abiding by the few token sanctions in place isn't truly necessary, as evidenced by the now 20 countries to which the Obama administration has granted waivers to continue doing business with Iran.
HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.
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.
When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy.
The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.
Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.
Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.
The good inside of all of us is wrapped in a layer of apathy, and we forget how much potential we have within us, in each and every one of us, to change the world for the better for ourselves and our children, and thus to bring about oneness.
I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.
Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.
Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.
Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.
