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Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life - is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.

Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it.

First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

Given the choice of apathy or someone liberating mink, burning down a research torture-laboratory, or killing a vivisectionist or other DIRECT murderer of animals, I will choose the aforesaid actions over apathy any day of the week.-

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.

I don't know what the future holds. It seems to be going in a really bad, bad place really quickly, and I don't have the answers and I don't have the solutions and I don't know what's gonna happen to change it. But the continued apathy will only lead to a worse situation for everybody.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.

Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

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

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy

It's enthusiasm, not apathy, that makes the world go 'round.

It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been pretty foul.

I watched the coral reefs that I studied as a student vanish in the blink of an eye, and for decades I wrote and spoke of ocean obituaries. But big scary problems without solutions lead to apathy, not action.

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

Make your "yes" mean yes, and your "no" mean no.

Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism.

My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.