“If I wanted to kill somebody I'd take this book and beat you to death with it, and I wouldn't feel a thing. It would be just like walking to the drugstore.”— Charles Manson, youtube.com
“I have a strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate, it’s apathy - it’s not giving a damn.”— Leo Buscaglia, amazon.com
“So how do you make sure that those of us who are not starving, that those of us who have the riches the world has to offer, how do you make make sure that we don't march and say "It's not fair"? What you do is you create a material reality, ie capitalism, which is unfair and then you develop an ideo…”— Gail Dines, youtube.com
“What oppression does is destroy our capacity for empathy because otherwise we would all be up in arms enraged at the fact that there's people out there who are oppressed.”— Gail Dines, youtube.com
“Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself: All right, it’s just fear, I don’t have to let it control me. I see it for what it is.”— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com
“We buoy between extremes: not caring about anything or caring so much about one thing it could break us all together.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“There's nothing I can say that wouldn't be better said in, like, a book.”— Poussey Washington, evolegnarts.tumblr.com
“Did ever occur to you that we don't wanna get in touch with our feelings? That actually feeling our feelings might make it impossible to survive in here?”— Poussey Washington, tvfanatic.com
“Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.”— J.K Rowling, youtube.com
“Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.”— Helen Keller, amazon.com
“There was a terrified child inside of him. He wanted to love. And he wanted to be loved. He just didn’t know how.”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“From the Fast and the Furious to the disappearance of Flight 470 starring unidentified passengers, 33 gone in northwest Kenya post-civil war violence in Libya, Syria the Iraq insurgency, the insurgency in Ukraine, Pakistan, Nigeria a multitude in Mexico made anonymous in the movies, all of us... ...…”— Chris Campanioni, amazon.com
“the courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing…”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave me a relaxed manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com