Quotes About Ignorance And Apathy

#1. Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives.

George W. Bush

#2. 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

#3. Today in the early Twenty-First Century, we Americans are once again faced with the same basic choice: liberty or tyranny, freedom or servitude. However, the attitude of far too many Americans towards our problems is one of both ignorance and apathy: "I don't know and I don't care.

Chris Hambleton

#4. 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.

Michael Steinhardt

#5. Alcoholic drinks do not agree with me. A single glass of wine or beer a day is amply sufficient to turn life into a valley of tears for me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Jimmy Buffett

#7. It is not a conspiracy, don't call it a conspiracy. It is all out in the open and it stands on the ignorance, apathy and stupidity of the American people that is the foundation upon which the New World Order is built.

William Cooper

#8. Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.

Suzy Kassem

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Haniel Long

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

Walter Benjamin

#15. The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.

Flannery O'Connor

#16. 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.

Frank Layden

#17. Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

Janeane Garofalo

#18. CHAPTER XXVIII LOOKS, AFTER OLIVER, AND PROCEEDS WITH HIS? ADVENTURES

Charles Dickens

#19. Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

William Safire

#20. Find a man who calls you beautiful instead of hot,
Who calls you back when you hang up on him,
Who will ... stay awake just to watch you sleep...
Who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats.

Colin Martin

#21. Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

Sharon M. Draper

#22. 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 Jose

#23. While ignorance might be bliss, apathy can be deadly.

Todd Stocker

#24. Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.

Jimmy Buffett