“Apathy, or lethargy, or a combination of the two, soon casts a spell over everything and the most traumatic events are quickly… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day--of almost any day, regardless of what we have done or left undone--apathy tells us that it's… — Ken Wytsma Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“Though he felt a little guilt over disappearing, it wasn't even guilt, just sadness over not even wanting to call her.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Things will happen that you can’t prevent, things will fall apart that you can’t hold together, but ultimately you’re shaping yourself and… — Erik Tomblin Copy Share Image
When we speak of a calm state of mind or peace of mind, we shouldn't confuse that with an insensitive state of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
“Face it―nobody cares. But, so what? Their apathy does not diminish your worth. Learn from it. Make it your job to care… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Apathy, the blunting of the emotions and the feeling that one could not care any more, were the symptoms arising during the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
In the 00s, it was often claimed that political apathy had replaced political participation. Membership of political parties and electoral turnout were… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
“In the past few months, life had lost its sweetness and he’d lost his way. But no longer. Death was once again… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account. — Haniel Long Copy Share Image
“What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“We all know the experience of sitting in bed feeling exhilarated one day and lackluster the very next. The issue is not… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
“All I saw in his eyes during my last impromptu was visit was apathy. A healthy dose of it. It’s not that… — James L. Rubart Copy Share Image
“You have a practiced apathy, Mr. Wayne. But a man who doesn’t care about the world doesn’t spend half his fortune on… — Greg Cox Copy Share Image
Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“Is her name nightmare, some mothball ambition slammed into hard shoes suspended from cain't nobody do me like shame having sex with… — Cathleen Margaret Copy Share Image
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“To move people out of apathy, you must show a compelling vision for the future and contrast it to an unsatisfactory, frustrating… — Edify.me Copy Share Image
No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate. — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
“Feelings of apathy as they relate to our relationships often stem from insufficiently paying attention to those around us.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
