Apathy Quotes

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.

[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.

Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.

That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women and all of it - and then it's all taken away from you. You end up walking the hallways of always to a place called tedium and apathy, day after day after day. Years go by.

The more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it. Whoever deals with his personal suffering only in the way our society has taught him - through illusion, minimization, suppression, apathy - will deal with societal suffering in the same way.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination.

The world is a dangerous place to live

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

The oppposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual oppposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.

Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.

Apathy's a problem but who cares?

Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you.

Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

Apathy borders upon folly.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life - is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness.

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.

We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.

The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy.' I'm like, 'What?' I don't walk up to a friend and go 'That's a stylin' looking vortex of apathy you've got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself.'

At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.

Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.

The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lifted from apathy and ignorance. I write because of a compulsion to make something out of the nothing that is my own life.

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

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