Top 100 Quotes About Apathy
#1. I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.
Scott Weiland
#2. 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.
Stephan Bauman
#3. 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.
Theo De Raadt
#4. Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.
Trent Reznor
#5. 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
#7. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
William Lloyd Garrison
#10. Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness.
Winkie Pratney
#11. 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
#12. 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.
Noam Chomsky
#13. 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.
Bryant McGill
#14. 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.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#15. The world doesn't end in revolt and revolution ... it ends in apathy.
Nick Shamhart
#16. 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.
Arthur Gordon Webster
#17. Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.
Isaac Marion
#18. 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.
Moby
#19. 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
#21. 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.
Kool Moe Dee
#23. Greed, apathy, hubris - even loyalty - all demand payment in the end. Storms will always come, and men will always do evil in the shadow of some other word.
Greg Iles
#24. 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?
Christina Engela
#25. 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.
Warsan Shire
#26. 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
Albert Bandura
#27. Apathy is grossly undervalued and never there for me when I need it.
Alafair Burke
#28. Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
#29. Apathy is not compatible with love
Simon Tam
#30. Apathy is to allow another to determine your fate, and there can be no greater poverty.
Hadrian Bradley
#31. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion
C. G. Jung
#32. Two words from him, and I had seen my pouting apathy change into I'll play anything for you till you ask me to stop, till it's time for lunch, till the skin on my fingers wears off layer after layer, because I like doing things for you, will do anything for you, just say the word ...
Andre Aciman
#33. The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when you simply don't bother about that person!
Amish Tripathi
#34. Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives.
George W. Bush
#35. Apathy is just lack of energy, which to me, is just the literal definition of decadence.
Anonymous
#36. We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait
Frederick Lenz
#37. Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.
Bodie Thoene
#38. In the Reformed tradition, a good deal of our stoicism and apathy rides like a parasite on the back of the doctrine of God's sovereignty and providence.
Toby J. Sumpter
#39. Fascism is aided and advanced by the apathy of those who are tired of being conned and lied to by a bankrupt liberal establishment, whose only reason to vote for a politician or support a political party is to elect the least worst. This, for many voters, is the best Clinton can offer.
Chris Hedges
#40. Religious authority has often, doubtless, been oppressive or unreasonable; just as every legal system (and especially our present one) has been callous and full of a cruel apathy.
G.K. Chesterton
#41. Apathy is unconditional surrender where we are driven into hiding by unrealistic fear, and firmly held there by the misinformed belief that we are helpless to do anything other than hide. Therefore, apathy survives solely on lies and can be completely abated by truth.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#42. 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
#43. 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.
Sanhita Baruah
#45. Apathy between family members makes the blood they share turn to water.
Penny Reid
#46. If we don't love and respect ourselves, everything else disintegrates: our relationships, our work, our faith, and our dreams. We are the only filter between the world and ourselves. The more we doubt the filter, the more we doubt everything, sinking into indifferent apathy.
Jonathan Heston
#47. Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
Marcus Aurelius
#48. People like to talk shit, but it's usually to justify their own apathy.
Shepard Fairey
#50. Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.
Aristotle.
#51. When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.
Rollo May
#52. 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.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#53. I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.
Peggy Noonan
#54. Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination ...
Sterling W. Sill
#55. 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.
Charles Spurgeon
#56. Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being. He does embrace a cause, he does take a position, and can't allow it to become business as usual. Humanity is our business.
Rod Serling
#57. You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.
Mike Quade
#58. 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
#59. Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.
Geoff Mulgan
#60. Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
John Stott
#61. 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.
Kevin DeYoung
#62. Given the choice of apathy or someone liberating mink, burning down a research torture-laboratory, or killing a vivisectionist or other DIRECT murderer of animals, I will choose the aforesaid actions over apathy any day of the week.-
Gary Yourofsky
#63. 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.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#64. It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.
Lionel Shriver
#65. [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
#66. I bask in their heatedness as before a woodstove. My own apathy is bone chilling.
Lionel Shriver
#67. Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong.
Bodo Balsys
#68. The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance, which is the price we pay for segregation. That's what segregation means. You don't know what's happening on the other side of the wall, because you don't want to know.
Raoul Peck
#69. Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
Rollo May
#70. 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.
Paul Neilan
#71. 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.
Helen Keller
#72. It is far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism, for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#74. 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.
William Osler
#75. 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.
Elizabeth George
#76. Apathy. What's hard to understand? They don't care. Not until it affects them.
Donna Lynn Hope
#77. My melon soul
Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy
David Wong
#78. We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.
Antanas Mockus
#79. Until you've faced a crowd of graduating seniors, you have not experienced apathy ...
Gillian Roberts
#80. Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
Adlai Stevenson I
#81. 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
#82. The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
#83. It's my job to kick your ass and tell you not to fall into the sink-hole of sloth and apathy
Nicole Williams
#84. Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it.
Quinn Norton
#85. When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.
Haniel Long
#86. 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
#87. Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.
Rod Serling
#88. 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.
Samuel Johnson
#89. 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.
Scott Woods
#91. Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.
Tom Hanks
#92. Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.
Suzy Kassem
#93. In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
Alexander Pope
#94. To do peace, you must get up off your apathy.
Yolanda King
#95. Magnesium deficiency can produce symptoms of anxiety or depression, including muscle weakness, fatigue, eye twitches, insomnia, anorexia, apathy, apprehension, poor memory, confusion, anger, nervousness, and rapid pulse.
Carolyn Dean
#96. Digital age of business and world shall move up from apathy, to sympathy, to empathy.
Pearl Zhu
#98. Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#99. As they sang, this nondescript and indifferent street audience gazed, held by the peculiarity of such an unimportant-looking family publicly raising its collective voice against the vast skepticism and apathy of life.
Theodore Dreiser
#100. I rejected the traditional notion of 'women's work,' but I never thought of my early ambitions in a feminist way, exactly. Primarily I rebelled against apathy and limited education. I was rejecting a whole way of life that I thought trapped everyone.
Bobbie Ann Mason
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