God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom. – Johann von Goethe

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We 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

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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. – Samuel Johnson

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People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others. – Robert Jensen

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Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. – Horace Greeley

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