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 MathesonStichwörter: progress apathy aspiration
Many have given up. They stay home and watch the TV screen, living on the earnings of their parents, cousins, bothers, or uncles, and only leave the house to go to the movies or to the nearest bar. "How're you making it?" on may ask, running into them along the block, or in the bar. "Oh, I'm TV-ing it"; with the saddest, sweetest, most shamefaced of smiles, and from a great distance. This distance one is compelled to respect; anyone who has traveled so far will not easily be dragged again into the world. There are further retreats, of course, than the TV screen or the bar. There are those who are simply sitting on their stoops, "stoned," animated for a moment only, and hideously, by the approach of someone who may lend them the money for a "fix." Or by the approach of someone from whom they can purchase it, one of the shrewd ones, on the way to prison or just coming out.
James BaldwinStichwörter: apathy escapism giving-up 57
What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: politics activism apathy neutrality
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 JoyStichwörter: animals apathy defensiveness vegans advocates animal-advocates social-condition
A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were dull with anger disguised as apathy. If she kept on her current path, she'd grow into the type of person who fed her kids Doritos for breakfast and purchased angry bumper stickers with lots of exclamation points. But right now, she was just another in a long line of pissed-off small-town girls with a shitty outlook.
Dennis LehaneStichwörter: apathy bad-moms moonlight-mile
We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")
Yevgeny ZamyatinStichwörter: murder death apathy
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
Terry EagletonStichwörter: inspirational apathy capitalism resistance socialism marxism inevitability
Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
Terry EagletonStichwörter: politics determinism history activism apathy marxism apolitical historical-determinism
You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.
Imre KertészStichwörter: truth deception apathy government tolerance radicalism
Even extreme grief may ultimately vent
itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy
Stichwörter: apathy grief depression
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