Apathy Quotes

Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.

Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it.

If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people.

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.

We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

It's enthusiasm, not apathy, that makes the world go 'round.

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.

I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

A lot of you cared, just not enough.

Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.

You can present the material, but you can't make me care.

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

apathy is about as near to the undertaker as you can get.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

The oppposite of Love is not Hate - it's apathy.