Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [61-80] of 93 Apathy quotesApathy QuotesApathy Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes But if you say, you can still pass the violations over, then I ask, hath your house been burnt? Hath your property been destroyed before your face? Are your wife and children destitute of a bed to lie on, or bread to live on? Have you lost a parent or a child by their hands, and yourself the ruined and wretched survivor? If you have not, then you are not a judge of those who have. But if you have, and can still shake hands with the murderers, then you are unworthy of the name of husband, father, friend, or lover, and whatever may be your rank or title in life, you have the heart of a coward and the spirit of a sycophant.~ Thomas Paine Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn math and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization. I know. I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.~ Seymour Papert He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.~ Charles Peguy One should not associate with controversy; one should always reach for the highest ratings; one should never forget that there is safety in numbers; one should always remember that comedy, adventure, and escapism provide the best atmosphere for selling.~ Peter G. Peterson Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.~ H. Beam Piper The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs, is to be ruled by evil men.~ Plato That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.~ Ezra Pound American tyranny has come gradually, like a slowly rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes in our door. Until then, it is merely someone else's problem and a problem that we fool ourselves into thinking won't reach us.~ Charley Reese The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.~ David Riesman The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.~ Will Rogers The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.~ Eleanor Roosevelt What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.~ Bertrand Russell Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.~ Epes Sargent Can we truly expect those who aim to exploit us to be trusted to educate us?~ Eric Schaub 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.~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude.~ Roger Scruton Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.~ Joseph Sobran We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.~ Solon We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation… We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print