Apathy Quotes

Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.

You have to have a lot more dedication to what I'll call 'the machine,' ... I have 20 percent dedication. What's needed is 110 percent. You can't have it with the level of apathy I have.

Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.

I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.

Apathy is so hard not to feel in this world that I see it and the devil walking hand in hand ruining our world. We can take more control by being conscious to start with.

By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

Stability can be a good thing, but it can also lead to apathy. I don't want to set that example for my children. I want them to believe in their dreams and to go after them. You do that by example.

In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.

It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been pretty foul.

Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political debate and action, if democracy is to survive.

There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos.

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.

And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay?

Freedom is always in danger, and the majority of mankind will always acquiesce in its loss, unless a minority is willing to challenge the privileges of its few and the apathy of the masses.

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for.

The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishFrustrationRageDespairA dullness that rings like wooden thunder

it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horseor that the hummingbird is so seldomseenor that we are too senseless to goinsane.coffee. give us more of that NOTHINGcoffee.

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

Once conform once do what others do because they do it and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair but to he who does not concern us at all.

Science 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.

HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)

Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.

While ignorance might be bliss, apathy can be deadly.

Give into hope, I say, for fear will only paralyze. It is better to life a life of love amidst the pain than a life of apathy.

When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.

The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans.

If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.

Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.

Even if there is no connection.Even if you are far from reach.Even if friendship is not enough.Even if love itself is not enough.What about apathy?I need you.

Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed.

When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things.

Apathy is the door to ignorance. Empathy is the door to wisdom.

The gut is the seat of all feeling.

We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.