The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“Use the apathy of your logic to solve your problems and then the passion of your soul to enjoy life after that.” — Angelos Michalopoulos Copy Share Image
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek… — Ralph Chaplin Copy Share Image
People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others. — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
In order to help usher in the golden age we must see the good in people. We must know it is there,… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We outsource human interaction with likes and pokes on facebook. We forego meaningful person to person conversation with instant messaging and texts.… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
You have many choices. You can choose forgiveness over revenge, joy over despair. You can choose action over apathy..- Stephanie Marston Letting… — Kevin Heath Copy Share Image
Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.” — John Fante Copy Share Image
Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Apathy is so hard not to feel in this world that I see it and the devil walking hand in hand ruining… — Lisa Germano Copy Share Image
Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee? — Anna Katharine Green Copy Share Image
I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it. — Quinn Norton Copy Share Image
Obsession is feeling fearful that you may be losing him; detachment is knowing that he may be losing you; and apathy is… — Arcine Arciniegas Copy Share Image
Acceptance is different than apathy. It is important to strive to be your best self, your healthiest, most productive, joyful self. But… — Teri Hatcher Copy Share Image
Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them;… — Avan Jogia Copy Share Image
“When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“For some there is no music No lights No fire No untamed madness that breathes life There is work Anguish Frustration Rage… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The oppposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual oppposite of love is apathy. When you… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.” — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political… — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination... — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
“...you want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you’re wounded by your own feelings & resentful others… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
