英語格言警句 Apathy (A9)
We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.
- Cynthia Ozick
I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.
- Susan Sontag
I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.
- Barack Obama
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
- Albert Camus
It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment
- Elie Wiesel
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
- George Bernard Shaw
The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
- Louis D. Brandeis
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
- Jimmy Buffett
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
- William Lloyd Garrison
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
- Robert M. Hutchins
That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
- Thomas Carlyle
In lazy Apathy let Stoics boast,
Their Virtue fix'd, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
- Alexander Pope
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
[I]n such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
- Albert Camus
What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
- Molly Ivins
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