Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, read more

Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the read more

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a read more

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always read more

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whinning about for years.

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what read more

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.