Quotes About Disengagement

Rather, in coining the term "inverted totalitarianism" I tried to find a name for a new type of political system, seemingly one driven by abstract totalizing powers, not by personal rule, one that succeeds by encouraging political disengagement rather than mass mobilization, that relies more on "private" media than on public agencies to disseminate propaganda reinforcing the official version of events.

Don't get attached to anything.

Politics is not really my thing.

Americans are really good at throwing their hands up and walking away from things.

I try to avoid political ties.

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.

El espantoso descenso al fondo de la tristeza. Por lo mismo que uno está triste, no tiene más ganas de hacer nada alegre. Ya nunca pongo un disco cuando me levanto.Ya nunca escucho música, no voy más al cine, no me compro nada que me guste.

Never, under any circumstances put a man in a position where he no longer cares.

We have the more hold over this world the further we withdraw from it, the less we adhere to it.

I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity

I always hated school.

When I was 19, my heart wasn't in it. I hated training.

Schoolwork was always suffering! I hated school!

I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes, I'm just not mad at it.

I tried synchronized swimming, but felt, over time, I was just going through the motions.

People shouldn't take my lack of interest in what they're saying personally. I don't really care about what I'm saying most of the time.

In a way, I wish I could be like that. You'd never worry or care about anything that really mattered. You'd be happy, in the same pitiful way someone like our friend Ritchie is. Nothing affects you and you affect nothing.

I didn't care what humans were doing to each other as long as I didn't have to a) stop it or b) clean up after it.

My salvation is that I never took any interest in anything.

todo invita al descompromiso.11 La desidia está de moda; está de moda la vida rota, deshilachada, así como los personajes sin mensaje interior.12

Politics for most people is distant from their everyday lives. They give little attention to it and they don't care about being politically well informed.10

The paradigm experience of solitude is a state characterized by disengagement from the immediate demands of other people – a state of reduced social inhibition and increased freedom to select one's mental and physical activities.

It was so boring, and 'Dragonheart' was so unchallenging - there was no research involved or any rehearsal. So I was in my hotel room every night with no English-language TV except 'Beavis and Butt-head' at 10 o'clock every night.