Dave Meslin The antidote to apathy

With apathy, he said, there is no urge to do something.

There is a need to communicate that is stronger than you, than the reluctance and even the crisis.

Eh, busy again with scientific murder, eh?

Instead, they have drawn on a patience rooted in their traditional political apathy.

The first level, the weakest level of civil response against violence, is denial and apathy.

But, fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

But this assumes that the governments of EU member states finally accept their political responsibility and, instead of pandering to rampant enlargement fatigue, take decisive steps against it.

Do you have that listless feeling?

France was said to be to be a country mired in apathy and increasingly uninterested in politics.

This is the dynamic between fear and apathy on the one side, and enthusiasm and humor on another side.

In this case, inclusiveness was also seen as a mechanism for re engaging apathetic urban communities.

We need to ask ourselves why young people seek in the high or the apathy induced by drugs a way to escape from reality.

The largest single contributor to that experience is watching television the next one is being in the bathroom, sitting.

We need to move Mexican society from denial and apathy to the next level of citizen response, which is, effectively, recognition.

The third session of the World Urban Forum would mark the thirtieth anniversary of the first Habitat conference, which led to the creation of UN Habitat. It would build on the successes of Nairobi and Barcelona and would be inclusive of all countries, cultures and people of the world.

Perhaps this is one of the reasons why 15 years after the fall of Communism, we again witness political apathy.

The fever, fatigue, and malaise may last only a few days but the wet cough may last up to several weeks.

At a time when the African peoples are accepting to make the most enormous sacrifices, the international community should not yield to disenchantment or to weariness.

Frequently, grandparents are raising their grandchildren because parents, due to alcoholism, domestic violence and general apathy, cannot raise them.

The answer probably lies in the apathy which carried over from the days of the mandatory Pioneer and Komsomol organizations.

It is a severe and prolonged state of mind in which normal sadness grows into a painful state of hopelessness, listlessness, lack of motivation, and fatigue.

This enthusiasm was very short lived, unfortunately, and after the invasion by Russian tanks not only the youth but the whole of society fell into deep apathy.

As in the Bible story, when Peter and John said to a beggar, rise up and walk, Africans are called upon to walk away from ignorance, inertia, apathy, and fatalism.

It is hard to describe the disappointment and sometimes apathy which the Georgian nation is feeling with regard to whether the international community will be able to promote a peaceful settlement of the Abkhazian conflict.

Baloha also explained his desire to resign by the fact that he has lost his point to work under conditions when the initiatives of the team of the Presidential Secretariat drowned in the apathy of the President.

Thus the political class becomes a kind of nomenklatura which remains unchallenged because of the apathy of the many, and when those who do not fit are silenced, nobody raises his or her voice.

Although the kiosks were ordered to be dismantled for all the reasons activists were not voicing, the longevity of the movement has been seen as a sort of awakening of Armenian civil society which has otherwise remained rather apathetic since the collapse of the Soviet Union some 20 years ago.

The seriousness of the situation prevailing on our continent, the longstanding nature of the problem and the observation of indicators for future prospects deserve to be met as a particularly complex challenge and should never be considered as a pretext for showing lassitude or indifference.

Yet, caught in the sights of a gun barrel, nobody not even the brave men and women who camped in their hundreds of thousands in the snow before Ukraine s parliament knew with certainty whether those changes had wrenched Ukrainians from the grip of fear and apathy.