Quotes about Apathy

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. Votes: 6

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm. Votes: 5

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. Votes: 5

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. Votes: 5

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. Votes: 5

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy. Votes: 4

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. Votes: 4

Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand Votes: 4

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care. Votes: 4

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. Votes: 4

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. Votes: 4

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. Votes: 4

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues. Votes: 4

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear. Votes: 4

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. Votes: 4

That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation. Votes: 4

Apathy borders upon folly. Votes: 3

Fight Apathy! ... or don't. Votes: 3

Apathy's a problem but who cares? Votes: 3

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion Votes: 3

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless. Votes: 3

Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable. Votes: 3

The greatest danger to our future is apathy. Votes: 3

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice. Votes: 3

You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin. Votes: 3

Apathy sets in when our passion for the future is miscarried. Votes: 3

Apathy is grossly undervalued and never there for me when I need it. Votes: 3

I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy. Votes: 3

No one cares. Apathy is a disease and some days I long for it Votes: 3

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Votes: 3

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. Votes: 3

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny. Votes: 3

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion Votes: 3

Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal. Votes: 3

Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people. Votes: 3

Apathy is a trap. There is no challenge... so there is no reward. Remember, there is always free cheese in a mousetrap. Votes: 3

Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another, and so on. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom. Votes: 3

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction. Votes: 3

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years. Votes: 3

May I just single out for salutations, on the 'anti-war' side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas For Fascism and Jugglers For Genocide. All of them united under that flaccid flag of convenience, Show-Offs For Saddam. Votes: 3

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens Votes: 3

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens. Votes: 3

Never complain about what you permit to be. Votes: 2

What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to love nothing, to understand everything-- makes one gentle and pliable. Votes: 2

My own apathy is bone chilling. Votes: 1

Voter apathy is a civic abdication. Votes: 1

A lot of you cared, just not enough. Votes: 1

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism. Votes: 1

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. Votes: 1

She was surprised at how deflating his presence was. Votes: 1

The dead know everything, but don't give a damn. Votes: 1

To be apathetic is literally to be without passion. Votes: 1

Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling. Votes: 1

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax. Votes: 1

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism. Votes: 1

You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin Votes: 1

The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed. Votes: 1

If I look at the mass I will never act. Votes: 1

Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you. Votes: 1

Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance. Votes: 1

Voter apathy was, and will remain the greatest threat to democracy. Votes: 1

Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight. Votes: 1

You can present the material, but you can't make me care. Votes: 1

Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens. Votes: 1

Comfort...was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison. Votes: 1

You'll learn. Silence and apathy are the best ways of saying Fuck You Votes: 1

Courage can't exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar. Votes: 1

Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom. Votes: 1

Participate in your life, don't just bear witness to the rain washing you away. Votes: 1

It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in. Votes: 1

The lazy one says "Everything has been said and done, I have nothing to add. Votes: 1

He stumbled out of his phlegmatic apathy,when she entered his life like an epiphany. Votes: 1

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X") Votes: 1

Even extreme grief may ultimately ventitself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy Votes: 1

It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need. Votes: 1

Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel. Votes: 1

When relationships fail it is usually because someone chooses not to show up for the battle. Votes: 1

The truth exposes some people so deeply, their last defense is to front a carefree insanity. Votes: 1

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. Votes: 1

Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed. Votes: 1

Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy. Votes: 1

In bitter manuscript remarks on other men's notions about solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight. Votes: 1

To make no decision in regard to the growth of authoritarian government is already a decision for it. Votes: 1

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. Votes: 1

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence. Votes: 1

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. Votes: 1

Happiness is not intelligence. You can be in a group of happy people, but they may be miles off course. Votes: 1

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it Votes: 1

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing! Votes: 1

Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women. Votes: 1

For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishFrustrationRageDespairA dullness that rings like wooden thunder Votes: 1

I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple. Votes: 1

You will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person's life, other than your own. Votes: 1

Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different. Votes: 1

Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness. Votes: 1

Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move. Votes: 1

HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death) Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings. Votes: 1

A lion of truth never assumes anything without validity. Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother. Votes: 1

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

His vital signs were taken, an electrocardiogram... which revealed occasional ventricular premature contractions. An intern took his history... and then he was promptly... simply... forgotten to death. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers Votes: 1

If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

They wrote to me and said something about it, and I said that if it doesn't involve any work, I'll do it. (On being named Minnesota's first Poet Laureate) Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

We all know the experience of sitting in bed feeling exhilarated one day and lackluster the very next. The issue is not whether we need to find a more fulfilling bed. Votes: 1

Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy. Votes: 1

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters. Votes: 1

If we aggressively pursue truth, if we are willing to sacrifice, if we look for wisdom from those on the periphery, we have the potential to shock the world from its apathy. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback. Votes: 1

When we surrender to apathy and expect the world to deliver everything to us, we deliver ourselves to a slow death and we sacrifice the best of our potential to the worst of our decisions. Votes: 1

There was nothing abstract or theoretical in his world. The stars had no significance. The sky was not interesting unless it showed probability of rain. He ate corn, corn, corn. He ate beans, beans, beans. Votes: 1

I continue to be surprised by judgmental native stereotypes and apathy, but if I wasn't that would mean I'd become accustomed and tolerant. I don't want to stop being surprised. I just want them to stop. Votes: 1

Congratulations.You've just been demoted from the "pity" sector to the "apathy" sector.To check the validity of this offer you can ask if anyone cares.To cancel your subscription, go get a life.Thank you. Votes: 1

The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing failed, OK. But the only thing we've got to live with is that it failed. Votes: 1

I concluded that the best thing for me and for those around me was to want nothing, to be enthusiastic about nothing, to be as unmotivated as possible, in fact, so that I would never again hurt anyone. Votes: 1

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. Votes: 1

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whinning about for years Votes: 1

I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult. Votes: 1

Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires. Votes: 1

...the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them. Votes: 1

The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good. Votes: 1

The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all. Votes: 1

Ferranti's thoughts had been his. As before he had understood his remorse so now he understood the mental chains that had imprisoned him. The poor wretch could not move. Misery had become apathy and apathy had brought the inevitable paralysis of the will. Votes: 1

It was nice of her to want to believe the best about me. People tend to do that with the strangers they're fucking. If she wanted to think that apathy and independence were the same thing, good for her. Maybe she was right. Votes: 1

So perhaps the best resource is to meet everything passively, to make yourself an inert mass, to stare at others with the eyes of an animal, to feel no compunction, with your own hand to throttle down whatever ghostly life remains in you. Votes: 1

i will admit there's a certain degree of giving a fuck that goes into not giving a fuck. by saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your terms. Votes: 1

Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you. Votes: 1

You wouldn't believe how much harder it's getting for me to just leave my studio. It's really sad. In fact these days the only thing that gets me outside is when I say: Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck you. Fuck me. Fuck this. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Votes: 1

It isn't what you will do for your children that makes you a great mother or father. It is what you do for God that isn't self serving, which sets the stage for children to learn to care about something other than what is expected. Votes: 1

So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect Votes: 1

When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don't sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may be delivering the worst messages today, but history shows that grass-roots energy has the power to change anything when that energy is focused toward justice Votes: 1

The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction. Votes: 1

Since total skepticism about ultimate beliefs is strictly impossible, in that no belief can be doubted except on the basis of some other belief, indifference is always in danger of giving place to some sort of fanaticism that can be as intolerant as any religion has ever been. Votes: 1

The good inside of all of us is wrapped in a layer of apathy, and we forget how much potential we have within us, in each and every one of us, to change the world for the better for ourselves and our children, and thus to bring about oneness. Votes: 1

All the girls stared at me with hatred in their eyes. It was a big drama that had to be acted out. But deep down, nobody really cared. The other girls didn't care about Jennifer. Jennifer didn't care about me. I didn't care about anything.Everyone was so full of crap. Votes: 1

Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue. Votes: 1

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others. Votes: 1

The Airlines lady who travels in the same compartment as us day after day, has bruises on her arms and face today and her eyes keep welling, but no one asks her why. Our eyes dart towards her, but we go back to travelling in too much proximity. Two inches from one another and expressionless. Votes: 1

Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me. Votes: 1

Darkness feeds on apathy. Votes: 0

I'd rather deal with anger than apathy. Votes: 0

Do you believe in apathy at first sight? Votes: 0

I was faced more with apathy than opposition. Votes: 0

The opposite of love is apathy or hatred. Votes: 0

My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy Votes: 0

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it. Votes: 0

The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy. Votes: 0

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy. Votes: 0

The oppposite of Love is not Hate - it's apathy. Votes: 0

It's enthusiasm, not apathy, that makes the world go 'round. Votes: 0

Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being. Votes: 0

Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy. Votes: 0

Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness. Votes: 0

To do peace, you must get up off your apathy. Votes: 0

Children are harmed more by our apathy than our error. Votes: 0

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy. Votes: 0

the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension. Votes: 0

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something. Votes: 0

The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy. Votes: 0

Remember, I'm not running against Rick Perry; I'm running against apathy. Votes: 0

apathy is about as near to the undertaker as you can get. Votes: 0

Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me. Votes: 0

The 2016 presidential campaign is heating up. Can you feel the indifference, the apathy? Votes: 0

Until you've faced a crowd of graduating seniors, you have not experienced apathy ... Votes: 0

If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won. Votes: 0

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found. Votes: 0

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer. Votes: 0

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor. Votes: 0

We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy. Votes: 0

Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse. Votes: 0

Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives. Votes: 0

Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise. Votes: 0

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility. Votes: 0

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. Votes: 0

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens. Votes: 0

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. Votes: 0

Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil. Votes: 0

The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when u simply don't bother about that person! Votes: 0

The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when you simply don't bother about that person! Votes: 0

When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy. Votes: 0

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity. Votes: 0

Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach. Votes: 0

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve. Votes: 0

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. Votes: 0

You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation. Votes: 0

Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination... Votes: 0

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account. Votes: 0

Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive. Votes: 0

We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait Votes: 0

The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy. Votes: 0

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence. Votes: 0

I always write 'Fight' on the mirrors - that goes way back to the times when you had to fight apathy. Votes: 0

To tell the truth is an act of love. To withhold the truth is an act of hate. Or worse, apathy. Votes: 0

Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be. Votes: 0

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire. Votes: 0

Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it. Votes: 0

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate. Votes: 0

It is far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism, for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one. Votes: 0

Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong. Votes: 0

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power. Votes: 0

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more. Votes: 0

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love. Votes: 0

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee? Votes: 0

I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much effort. Votes: 0

Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home." Votes: 0

The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness. Votes: 0

First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care. Votes: 0

Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting. Votes: 0

We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy towards apathy, isolation, passivity, helplessness and separation. Votes: 0

Some people fall apart when they get hurt. Puddle into apathy and despair and never recover. They wait all their lives for someone to come along and rescue them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great collective passion of our time. Votes: 0

Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better. Votes: 0

The road to hell is paved in good intentions and apathy,What did you expect when common sense is your enemy?I'd rather burn alive than drown inside your reality Votes: 0

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest. Votes: 0

It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy Votes: 0

Acceptance is different than apathy. It is important to strive to be your best self, your healthiest, most productive, joyful self. But that is going to be a different answer to everyone. Votes: 0

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer. Votes: 0

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries. Besides the fanatical frenzy which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy. Votes: 0

Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death. Votes: 0

Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People generally believe that stress is responsible for depletion, but apathy and uninspired systematic repetition are equally responsible. Or rather, systematic repetition produces as much or more stress and anxiety as anything else. Votes: 0

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline. Votes: 0

Evil feeds off a source of apathy, weak in the mind, and of course you have to be. Less than a man, more like a thing, no knowledge you're nothing, knowledge is king. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

"¦their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort. Votes: 0

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists. Votes: 0

In my better moments, I think of apathy as purpose's sleep. In my worse moments, when I'm trying to fix it or get rid of it, I call it feeling lazy, depressed, or useless. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes. But the less vulnerable we are because of privilege, the country we're born in, or the security we enjoy, the more vulnerable our souls are to apathy. Votes: 0

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms. Votes: 0