The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
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.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
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.
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.