Apathy Quotes

“Rips Into Americans' Apathy About Gun Violence”

— Anonymous

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“less apathy, more empathy.”

— Scott Stabile

Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

— Charles M. Blow

For he who is not deaf, half a silence is enough.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

— Rollo May

The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

— C. S. Lewis

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

— Jane Goodall

Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.

— Trent Reznor

“Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.”

— Suzy Kassem

“The Planet Earth is a cesspool of avarice and apathy.”

— Robert Peate

“If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for.”

— Neil Gaiman

Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness.

— Winkie Pratney

“And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.”

— Lionel Shriver

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

— Eric Metaxas

Remember, I'm not running against Rick Perry; I'm running against apathy.

— Kinky Friedman

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

— Charles Francis Adams, Sr

“Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how…

— Shannon L. Alder

“The true measure of a person’s character is revealed when they learn of another’s darkest fears. It is in that moment the…

— John C. Stipa

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to…

— Terry Pratchett

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

— Marcus Aurelius

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It's time, more than ever, to shrug off apathy. For Socialism not to be a dirty word any more. This is a…

— Jake

We all observe political leaders and scams. People are affected because of political apathy. We all get frustrated because of what we…

— Vijay Deverakonda

“Shirking and sharking, in all their many varieties, have been sown broadcast by the ill-fated cause; and even those who have contemplated…

— Charles Dickens

The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of…

— Devin Townsend

It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world…

— William H. Gass

“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

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and…

— Samuel Johnson

The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful,…

— Rollo May

Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises…

— Lyman Abbott

“It was not our war, but it would be our disgrace, our shame. The West was filling to declare a war over…

— Bill Carter

Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language…

— Kenny Smith

“If someone with a high level of authority were to ask me, "Suzy, how can we make people so incredibly stupid and…

— Suzy Kassem

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man…

— Winston Churchill

“I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change…

— Shannon L. Alder

A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“I think our generation has been called to apathy just as our grandparents were called to defeat fascism and the baby boomers…

— Paul Neilan

“As a species, tragedy dwells within us all. We push it to the back of our thoughts, but it is never so…

— Logan Kain

There is no shortage of jerks in the world. No matter where you go, there'll be jerks there. Everyone's gonna want to…

— Isaiah Harden (Me