Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 93 Apathy quotesApathy QuotesApathy Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.~ Daniel Defoe Indeed nations, in general, are not apt to think until they feel; and therefore nations in general have lost their liberty: For as violations of the rights of the governed, are commonly not only specious, but small at the beginning, they spread over the multitude in such a manner, as to touch individuals but slightly. Thus they are disregarded. The power or profit that arises from these violations centering in few persons, is to them considerable. For this reason the governors having in view their particular purposes, successively preserve an uniformity of conduct for attaining them. They regularly increase the first injuries, till at length the inattentive people are compelled to perceive the heaviness of their burthens -- They begin to complain and inquire — but too late. They find their oppressors so strengthened by success, and themselves so entangled in examples of express authority on the part of their rulers, and of tacit recognition on their own part, that they are quite confounded: for millions entertain no other idea of the legality of power, than it is founded on the exercise of power.~ John Dickenson As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.~ Justice William O. Douglas [H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.~ Will Durant History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.~ Abraham Flexner Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West coast.~ Viktor Frankyl These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.~ John Kenneth Galbraith I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called "brightness", but it doesn't work.~ Gallagher The moment men obtain perfect freedom, that moment they erect a stage for the manifestation of their faults. The strong characters begin to go wrong by excess of energy; the weak by remissness of action.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pitiful is the one who, fearing failure, makes no beginning.~ Hindu Saying It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.~ David Hume Some of the problems of governance in the United States today stem from an excess of democracy ... The effective operation of a democratic political system usually requires some measure of apathy and non-involvement on the part of some individuals and groups.~ Samuel Huntington We have the greatest opportunity the world has ever seen, as long as we remain honest -- which will be as long as we can keep the attention of our people alive. If they once become inattentive to public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors would all become wolves.~ Thomas Jefferson We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.~ Arthur Koestler The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.~ Charles Krauthammer If you look like a rabbit, and act like a rabbit, you will be treated like a rabbit -- prey for all predators.~ Stony Loft It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print