Apathy Quotes

Addiction brings apathy. Break the apathy, and you break the addiction.

Apathy's just a front. People offer it when there's something stronger hiding underneath. You have to work harder to tap into it, but then your performance has even more power.

Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.

Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy.

I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.

I stood there, watching her. The whole world was a dream, I realized. Everyone was acting in a bad soap opera. The whole world was one big FOX TV show.

Apathy is giving up when we need to get up.

Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down.

Courage can't exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar.

Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.

If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it.

Choose empathy over apathy.

There's so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell him nothing.I cut a line and my losses, and I light a cigarette.

Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.

Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.

I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer.

To be poor is to suffer. It's the kind of suffering that freezes the heart stone cold.

If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for.

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.

Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move.

When all that's left mediocrity and each day just bleeds into the next.

...you want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you’re wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don’t seem to care...

Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.

And remember, silence is all it takes to validate evil and remember, indifference is all it takes to endorse it.

Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom.

A complete atheist stands on the next-to-last upper step to the most complete faith (he may or may not take that step), while the indifferent one has no faith, apart from a bad fear.

Apathy is not compatible with love

Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum qtd. in Halter)

We may not choose apathy, but when we choose anything other than love and empathetic justice, we get apathy by default.

At the end of the day--of almost any day, regardless of what we have done or left undone--apathy tells us that it's perfectly acceptable to live with illusions of our own justice.

A subtle reason for apathy is that justice rarely has much to do with our lives. Unless we've personally been victims of injustice, we can take for granted that life is generally fair.

Apathy is the opposite of caring. If you’re apathetic towards something, then it isn’t something you want.

Apathetic in my adolescence, my heart is fluorescent. It flickerslike liquor store lights in the ghetto.

Face it―nobody cares.But so what? Their apathy doesn't diminish your worth. Learn from it. Make it your job to care for those around you so that they don't feel like nobody cares.

Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.

Apathy.The reason you may wake up one day being not only a 2nd class citizen, but a criminal because of who you are - and then wonder why 'somebody' didn't do something when there was still time?

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

Voter apathy was, and will remain the greatest threat to democracy.

He stumbled out of his phlegmatic apathy, when she entered his life like an epiphany.

The principle locations of exploitation have moved, through the mechanism of 'globalisation', to where most of us can't see them and don't really care about them if we do.

Often, vegan advocates assume that a person's defensiveness is the result of selfishness or apathy, when in fact it is much more likely the result of systematic and intensive social conditioning.

I'm a believer. I believe in the goodness of life. I believe in the brotherhood of mankind. I believe in humanity.

less apathy, more empathy.

Those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.

Fight Apathy! ... or don't.

I pour blood on my naiveté, your apathy, and your betrayal tonight.

Stay passed out, that's the right dope. There ain't any cool willow trees- except you grow your own in a bottle.

Apathy sets in when our passion for the future is miscarried.

If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much.But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.

It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need.