Apathy Quotations

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

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

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

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

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

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

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

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

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.

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

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

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

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

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

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

I was really surprised by the lack of awareness, by the apathy two years ago, ... The absence of that today is not surprising.

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

One feature of our life that is very evident is the apathy of most young persons, which in extreme cases is manifested as delinquency.

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

I think there's apathy in the market. The cruel reality is that earnings do matter and, in the absence of any new catalyst, you're going to get days like this.

I think it's apathy that's been fueled by the feeling like you have the inability to change anything in your life.

Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love

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

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

The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

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.

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

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.

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

We are missing something. Our youth today is empty. No longer do the children dream and believe they can change the world. Apathy has destroyed the beautiful idealism of our youth. The intricate illusions and fearless aspirations. The gleam in a child's eye. God help us. All hope is truly lost.

When the people of a nation out of sincere ignorance, conscientious stupidity, and/or apathy cheer and support liars and murderers like Bush and Blair they are breeding contempt for the laws of the land. These people will find themselves, sooner rather than later, surrounded by incomprehensible evil wherever they go. They become more like fish in a barrel than people.

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

You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.

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

We don't need a cause and effect here. We have bear psychology gripping the market so there's general apathy toward taking positions -- rallies are viewed as short-lived and trader-oriented.

Darkness feeds on apathy.

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

My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy

True religion is not a narrow dogma. It is not external observance. It is faith in God and living in the presence of God. It means faith in a future life, in truth and Ahimsa. There prevails today a sort of apathy towards these things of the Spirit.

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

Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.

Whether through apathy or confusion, the failure to claim these credits is just one way we're needlessly gifting vast sums to the taxman each year.

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

To watch fear and apathy turn to enthusiasm is very exciting.

The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.

I wanted to counter apathy and blandness. I wanted to shock homogenized minds with the experience of writing at high voltage. I wanted the press to assert relentlessly literature's importance. I wanted the press to be a national press and of national importance.

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.

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

This again highlights a disturbing trend in the apathy of the public towards drink-driving,

Apathy is a cop-out. Students are active and do want to make a difference. The real way to bring them in is by making a visible presence on campus. All students can make a difference.

Apathy is why we end up with ridiculous laws. People say, 'That is crazy and will never pass,' but then it does.

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

It just seems there is more apathy now and the only time people come forward is to complain.

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.

The inevitable upshot is increased voter apathy and disengagement with the political process.

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

[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.

Anyone who says there's apathy at the University of Maryland is not here tonight.

The problem in this district isn't the taxpayers' association. It's voter apathy in general, and a lack of interest from parents in particular.

There's a lot of investor apathy out there right now, and I don't see any incentive for people to move until the payrolls report. After that, people who are holding out may be willing to get back in.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.

To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent; none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.

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.

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.

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.

Apathy borders upon folly.

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

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

The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.

Apathy's a problem but who cares?

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

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

When you open up to the ultimate, immediately it pours into you. You are no longer an ordinary human being - you have transcended. Your insight has become the insight of the whole existence. Now you are no longer separate - you have found your roots.

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

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.

Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

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

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

We 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.

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