“Much of the apathy we express toward those we would describe as hopeless can be tied back to a failure of faith… — Mark A. Tietjen Copy Share Image
We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say,… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
There is a distinct difference between contentment and apathy. Contentment endures with gratitude where apathy has ceased to care. — Jordan Blake Michiels Copy Share Image
Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“I stood there, watching her. The whole world was a dream, I realized. Everyone was acting in a bad soap opera. The… — Blake Nelson 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
“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
“So perhaps the best resource is to meet everything passively, to make yourself an inert mass, to stare at others with the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
It's just this long overdue. These people [ex-Nazi brought to trial] should be grateful to the apathy that exists there that prevented… — Marvin Hier Copy Share Image
Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
People talk about apathy, especially in developed countries. We're kind of lulled into these tranquil lives, and we are pursuing our own… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“One of the most terrifying questions of all might be, ‘Will I unleash myself to live before death unleashes me from the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Since total skepticism about ultimate beliefs is strictly impossible, in that no belief can be doubted except on the basis of some… — Lesslie Newbigin 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
Anger is not only inevitable, but it is necessary. For in its place is indifference, the worst of all human qualities — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been… — Moby Copy Share Image
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We all observe political leaders and scams. People are affected because of political apathy. We all get frustrated because of what we… — Vijay Deverakonda Copy Share Image
“It's time, more than ever, to shrug off apathy. For Socialism not to be a dirty word any more. This is a… — Jake Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Stability can be a good thing, but it can also lead to apathy. I don't want to set that example for my… — Michael Easton Copy Share Image
Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues. — David Geffen Copy Share Image