Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-20] of 93 Apathy quotesApathy QuotesApathy Next 20 quotes Posterity -- you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.~ John Quincy Adams [A] deep-rooted culture of incompetence and corruption has made it virtually impossible for government to function fairly and efficiently. And because most government employees are shielded by layers of protection, they couldn't care less. Never before in the history of this nation has there been a greater divide between a self-serving federal leviathan and millions of Americans... 'Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem,' Ronald Reagan reminded us during his inaugural address in 1981. Nothing's changed since then, with one exception: It's gotten far worse.~ Arnold Ahlert The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don’t adjust! Revolt against the reality!~ Mordechai Anielewicz The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.~ Hannah Arendt The main characteristic of any event is that it has not been foreseen. We don’t know the future but everybody acts into the future. Nobody knows what he is doing because the future is being done, action is being done by a “we” and not an “I.” Only if I were the only one acting could I foretell the consequences of what I’m doing. What actually happens is entirely contingent, and contingency is indeed one of the biggest factors in all history. Nobody knows what is going to happen because so much depends on an enormous number of variables, on simple hazard. On the other hand if you look at history retrospectively, then, even though it was contingent, you can tell a story that makes sense…. Jewish history, for example, in fact had its ups and downs, its, enmities and its friendships, as every history of all people has. The notion that there is one unilinear history is of course false. But if you look at it after the experience of Auschwitz it looks as though all of history -- or at least history since the Middle Ages -- had no other aim than Auschwitz…. This, is the real problem of every philosophy of history how is it possible that in retrospect it always looks as though it couldn’t have happened otherwise?~ Hannah Arendt I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.~ Reuben Blades Public apathy is more powerful than public opinion. There's more of it.~ Dr. Jim Boren As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.~ Judge Robert Bork To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the ability of average people to peacefully, productively coexist without some official policing their every move. The State is merely another human institution - less creative than Microsoft, less reliable than Federal Express, less responsible than the average farmer husbanding his land, and less prudent than the average citizen spending his own paycheck.~ James Bovard I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.~ Samuel Butler I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.~ Agatha Christie There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.~ William Kingdon Clifford We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...~ Bill Clinton When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use to “get their man.” Constitutional guarantees are regarded as bothersome “technicalities” that impede honest law enforcers in the performance of their duties.~ Donna Woolfolk Cross It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.~ John Philpot Curran We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others.~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Every nation gets the government it deserves.~ Joseph de Maistre The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.~ Charles-Louis De Secondat I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.~ Daniel Defoe Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print