Quotes About Indifference And Apathy

#1. In the past few months, life had lost its sweetness and he'd lost his way. But no longer. Death was once again the enemy, his indifference and apathy drowned in a Cheshire pond.

Sharon Kay Penman

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

David Letterman

#3. Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#4. The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

Elie Wiesel

#5. It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#6. 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

#7. The information is now in your hands for you to enjoy in the way that suits you best. Learn it all, or learn a little -- the choice is yours. Have fun.

Montse Stanley

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. This is a software-powered world.

Satya Nadella

#11. Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

Mason Cooley

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

Gillian Flynn

#13. 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.

Anton Chekhov

#14. Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

Jim Costa

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

Adlai Stevenson I

#16. 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

#17. There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

Juan Montalvo

#18. The novel is rescued life.

Hortense Calisher

#19. Indifference creates an artificial peace.

Mason Cooley

#20. As recently as the September 11 event, the majority of Muslims were, as the rest of the world was, against its violence. However, if despair and humiliation continue in the population of more than one billion Muslims, the world will face increasing risks of conflicts and wars.

Ahmed Zewail

#21. 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.

Lesslie Newbigin

#22. Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Benjamin Disraeli

#23. 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.

Dan Brown

#24. The door cracked open. "Decent?" Rafe asked.
"Yep"
"Damn." He pushed it open.
"If you're hoping to see something, the trick is to not knock first."
"That would be wrong," he said as he walked in. "The trick is to hope you say 'no, but come in anyway.'"
"Ah.

Kelley Armstrong

#25. 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.

Bret Easton Ellis

#26. It used to be the custom in this country that when you had made a career and were mature in judgment, you went to the Senate to give something back t the Republic. The idea that at age 25 you go out and buy a blow dryer and starting running for office is not what the founders had in mind

Gore Vidal

#27. I allowed myself to be bullied because I was scared and didn't know how to defend myself. I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied. By standing up for him, I learned to stand up for myself.

Jackie Chan

#28. The circle of indifference has the self at its centre. The circle of compassion has others at the centre.
The former leads to apathy; the latter to empathy.

Shubha Vilas

#29. Time is not a thief but the giver of all things. Apathy, sloth and indifference are the thieves that loot the chest of wealth that time has given you"

Christopher Sharp

Christopher Sharp

#30. Should my decease happen in Newcastle I desire that my remains may be laid near the south porch in Saint Andrews churchyard near the remains of my dear wife, and that the least possible expence may be laid out on my interment. Charles Avison

Charles Avison

#31. Participate in your life, don't just bear witness to the rain washing you away.

Thomm Quackenbush

#32. Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital?

Timothy Leary

#33. 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.

Elie Wiesel