Top 22 Quotes About Apathy And Complacency
#1. It is by giving our whole hearts to the Master and keeping His commandments that we come to know Him. In time, through the power of the Atonement, our hearts are changed, and we can become like Him.
Henry B. Eyring
#2. You've been thinking about something without willing to for a long time ... Then, all of a sudden, the problem is opened to you in a flash and you suddenly see the answer.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
#3. It's funny how the colours of the like real world only seem real real when you viddy them on a screen
Anthony Burgess
#4. We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#5. Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause - and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it?
Bill Gates
#6. 'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
Sylvia Earle
#8. All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky
#9. Somebody sees me, and I see myself through them. Then it's all gone, the whole world falls apart.
Anne Sexton
#10. The Spirit wants to make you threatening to all the forces of injustice and apathy and complacency that keep our world from flourishing.
John Ortberg
#11. When will the others come?
And there is one who will never come. At least we will not see him if he does. But, oh, when I think he will be there
when our Canadian soldiers return there will be a shadow army with them
the army of the fallen. We will not *see* them
but they will be there!
L.M. Montgomery
#13. All I can say is that you make me ... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.
Jojo Moyes
#14. We are being bought off by our affair with the contemporary drug of choice: ease.
Colum McCann
#15. There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#16. I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.
Freddie Mercury
#17. I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
Maggie Smith
#18. Spread those legs, sweetheart. Show me where the paddle made you wet.
Anonymous
#19. Neither explaining suffering nor offering a program for the elimination of suffering, Lamentations keeps company with the extensive biblical witness that gives dignity to suffering by insisting that God enters our suffering and is companion to our suffering.
Eugene H. Peterson
#20. Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes. But the less vulnerable we are because of privilege, the country we're born in, or the security we enjoy, the more vulnerable our souls are to apathy.
Brandi Carlile
#21. What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to love nothing, to understand everything
makes one gentle and pliable.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#22. Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
Menander
