Apathy Quotes · Page 7

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

— William Safire

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

— Bret Easton Ellis

The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.

— Franz Grillparzer

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

— Thomm Quackenbush

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

— Will Durant

Try to greet troubles with apathy. Hello's are never what they used to be.

— The Swellers

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

— Anonymous

What is the difference between apathy and ignorance? I don't know and I don't care.

— Anonymous

It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been…

— Moby

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the…

— Thomas Carlyle

Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.

— James F. Cooper

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek…

— Ralph Chaplin

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

Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the…

— Rajneesh

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

Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people.

— Russell Brand

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

— Lyman Abbott

“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

Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not…

— Dallas Willard

The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It…

— Joost Meerloo

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

— Bill Carter

In today's world where, more than ever, the ongoing concentration of money and power in the hands of a self-selected few, relies…

— Nomi Prins

“I suddenly felt that it was all the same to me whether the world existed or whether there had never been anything…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He was astonished at how calm he found he was. Fear of death had always energised him, making him move far more…

— K.J. Parker

I understand perfectly. Darquesse isn't a separate entity. She isn't another person. She's you. If you make the wrong choices, if you…

— Derek Landy

I do feel there is a certain amount of distance and apathy that's created when you feel like there's a distance between…

— Rashida Jones

Representative democracy frequently manifests a disconnect between parliamentarians and the people, so that parliamentarians have agendas that do not correspond with the…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the…

— Zeena Schreck

We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people;…

— Saul Alinsky

I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you suffer now when…

— Philip K. Dick

Your life begins to end the moment you start being silent about the things that matter.

— Martin Luther King Jr

“The dead know everything, but don't give a damn.”

— Joanne Harris

When all else fails, go back to bed. Repeat as necessary.

— Rock Cowles

All that is necessary for the triumph of Evil is for the Good men to do nothing.

— Anonymous

“Q: What’s the difference between ignorance and apathy? A: Don’t know, don’t care.”

— Scott McNeely

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.

— Hannah Arendt

“With a single refusal, Zachary plucked the apathy off of me like a petal from a flower.”

— Edan Lepucki

Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

— Andre Gide