Quoty: quotes tagged with 'apathy'

A quality person will murmur not. He will not f...

A quality person will murmur not. He will not find fault or criticize, belittle, or nag. When I think of those who are examples of proficient murmuring on a continuing basis, I think of Laman and Lemuel in the Book of Mormon. By contrast I admire Nephi, who never murmured. Instead he was positive and had no time for contention, discouragement, or apathy.

Someone has wisely stated that hate is not the opposite of love. Apathy is. We will not have time for apathy in life�s journey if we speak and think positively. Seek, search, and work for worthy eternal qualities and friends.
Author: Marvin J. Ashton, Source: http://lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg/menuitem.b12f9d18fae655bb690...
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty�power...

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty�power is ever stealing from the many to the few.... The hand entrusted with power becomes ... the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot: only by unintermitted Agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.
Author: Wendell Phillips, Source: speech in Boston, Massachusetts, January 28, 1852, before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
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I don't know how you feel, my brethren and sist...

I don't know how you feel, my brethren and sisters, but I'd rather be dead than to lose my liberty. I have no fear we'll ever lose it because of invasion from the outside. But I do have fear that it may slip away from us because of our own indifference, our own negligence, as citizens of this land. And so I plead w/ you this morning that you take an active interest in matters pertaining to the future of this country.
Author: Ezra Taft Benson, Source: The L.D.S. Church and Politics, BYU Devotional, December 1, 1952
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of ou...

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors; they purchased them for us with toil and danger and at the expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.
Author: Samuel Adams, Source: Unknown
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vac...

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
Author: Ayn Rand, Source: Atlas Shrugged, p. 957
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We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful t...

We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not...? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth.

Author: Patrick Henry, Source: http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/henry.htm
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of ...

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Author: Plato, Source: Unknown
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While the iron curtains rise and thicken, we ea...

While the iron curtains rise and thicken, we eat, drink, and make merry. While armies are marshalled and march and drill, and officers teach men how to kill, we continue to drink and carouse as usual. While bombs are detonated and tested, and fallout settles on the already sick world, we continue in idolatry and adultery. While corridors are threatened and concessions made, we live riotously and divorce and marry in cycles like seasons. While leaders quarrel, and editors write, and authorities analyze and prognosticate, we break the Sabbath as though no command had ever been given. While enemies filter into our nation to subvert us and intimidate us and soften us, we continue with our destructive thinking: "It can't happen here.

Will we ever turn wholly to God? Fear envelopes the world which could be at ease and peace. In God is protection, safety, peace. He has said, "I will fight your battles." But his commitment is on condition of our faithfulness.
Author: Ezra Taft Benson, Source: Conference Report, October 1961, p.69
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Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.
Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin, Source: Unknown
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It is difficult to get a man to understand some...

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Author: Upton Sinclair, Source: Unknown
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evi...

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Author: Edmund Burke, Source: Unknown
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The Insiders are counting on your being too pre...

The Insiders are counting on your being too preoccupied with your own problems or too lazy to fight back while the chains of slavery are being fastened on you. They are counting on their mass media to con you, frighten you, or ridicule you out of saving your freedom, and, most of all, they are counting on your thinking you can escape by not taking part in opposing their takeover.
Author: Gary Allen, Source: None Dare Call It Conspiracy, p. 152-3
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The penalty good men and women pay for indiffer...

The penalty good men and women pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Author: Plato, Source: Unknown
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Is it because we're having so much fun at home ...

Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are?
Author: Ray Bradbury, Source: Fahrenheit 451, p. 73
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In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed i...

In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything.
Author: George Orwell, Source: 1984, p. 156
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