Why are the mainstream buzz things rarely contemporary? It doesn't happen very often. It's hard to feel culpable or implicated or even apathetic.
Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.
Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion.
I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight them at your desk hopelessly; then you lose both the day and your self-respect. Treat them as physical phenomena -- casually -- and obey them.
Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne.
Take a nation, tell the people there is no God, tell them there is nothing beyond the grave, and they will lose heart, lose their morale. They will become such a shiftless, lazy, apathetic, lethargic people that you won't be able to get half of them to work. Many will not be motivated by anything.
Being a geek is a great thing. I think we're all geeks. Being a geek means you're passionate about something and that defines your uniqueness. I would rather be passionate about something than be apathetic about everything.
. . . no worship is better than apathetic worship.
They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer
I think we've unplugged and become very apathetic to a lot of things that are happening. There's so much going on and we're sort of disconnected.
The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a safe code of conduct - one that would earn everyone's approval. Your actions can always be condemned by someone - for being too bold or too apathetic, for being too conformist or too nonconformist, for being too liberal or too conservative. So it's necessary to decide whose approval is important to you.
To be apathetic is literally to be without passion.
To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie. . . But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek - Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong And dare not speak!
Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world
I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
The absolute worst thing you can do in a scene is be apathetic.
No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.
