"What is called "apathy" is, I believe, a feeling of helplessness on the part of the ordinary citizen, a feeling of impotence in the face of enormous power. It's not that people are apathetic; they do care about what is going on, but don't know what to do about it, so they do nothing, and appear to be indifferent."

-- Howard Zinn

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“There's a kiss at the end of the rainbow more precious than a pot of gold.”
“I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.”
“I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance....”
“I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desertâ€”under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that is essentially indirect and sideways.Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like homeâ€“not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors.Â How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away.Â How you can fall in love with the light.”
“But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.”
“The Vice Presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit.”

Source : In O. C. Fisher 'Cactus Jack' (1978) ch. 11
“I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.”

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