Apathy famous quotes
03-25-2025
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the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.
-- Abigail McCarthy -
I was faced more with apathy than opposition.
-- Adrian Cronauer -
Apathy is grossly undervalued and never there for me when I need it.
-- Alafair Burke -
Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you.
-- Alyson Noel -
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.
-- Amish Tripathi -
Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?
-- Anna Katharine Green -
We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.
-- Antanas Mockus -
apathy is about as near to the undertaker as you can get.
-- Arlene Francis -
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.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
Theres nothing wrong with making the best of ones declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that were seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.
-- Aubrey de Grey -
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.
-- Avan Jogia -
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.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong.
-- Bodo Balsys -
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
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.
-- Criss Jami -
HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.
-- David Geffen -
In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.
-- David Hume -
My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy
-- David Wong -
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.'
-- Devin Townsend -
Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.
-- Don Henley -
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.
-- Dorothee Solle -
Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.
-- Emiliano Salinas -
Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.
-- Epes Sargent -
It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.
-- Eric Metaxas -
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.
-- F. Sionil José -
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.
-- Fanny Burney -
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
-- Frank Moore Colby -
Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.
-- G. Edward Griffin -
To tell the truth is an act of love. To withhold the truth is an act of hate. Or worse, apathy.
-- Gene Kim -
Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.
-- Geoff Mulgan -
Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
-- George Steiner -
Until you've faced a crowd of graduating seniors, you have not experienced apathy ...
-- Gillian Roberts -
Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.
-- H. Beam Piper -
When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.
-- Haniel Long -
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.
-- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke -
General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.
-- Herbert M. Shelton -
The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy.
-- Howard G. Hendricks -
Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
-- James Goldsmith -
[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.
-- James Joyce -
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
-- James Thurber -
Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
-- Jimmy Buffett -
All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.
-- Joe Strummer -
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.
-- John Dos Passos -
Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.
-- John Milton -
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.
-- John W. Gardner -
Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy
-- Joseph Conrad -
Remember, I'm not running against Rick Perry; I'm running against apathy.
-- Kinky Friedman -
Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.
-- Laurence Overmire -
The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.
-- Learned Hand -
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.
-- Lionel Shriver -
It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.
-- Lionel Shriver -
It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium, It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums. It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections, Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.
-- Louis MacNeice -
If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.
-- Marcus Mumford -
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.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
-- Plato -
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller -
Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people.
-- Russell Brand -
Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination...
-- Sterling W Sill -
It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.
-- Tanith Lee -
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
-- Terry Eagleton -
Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
-- Terry Pratchett -
It's enthusiasm, not apathy, that makes the world go 'round.
-- Tony Alessandra -
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
-- William Bernbach -
Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness.
-- Winkie Pratney -
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
-- Winston Churchill -
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
-- Conor Cruise O'Brien -
Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to die, or why Mr. Fortune and Mary Fortune: I just feel in my bones that that is the way it has to be. If I had the abstraction first I don't suppose I would write the story.
-- Flannery O'Connor -
Children are harmed more by our apathy than our error.
-- Jay Strack -
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.
-- Lisa Germano -
The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.
-- Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
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.
-- Najib Razak -
Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it.
-- Quinn Norton -
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
-- Adlai Stevenson I -
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?
-- Ray McGovern -
Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.
-- Rod Serling -
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.
-- George Jung -
To do peace, you must get up off your apathy.
-- Yolanda King
