Apathy Quotes
284 quotes by 229 authors
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I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a…
— Barack Obama
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If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of…
— Anthony Storr
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The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy.
— Howard G. Hendricks
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Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
— Frank Moore Colby
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Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another, and so…
— Scott Woods
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People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man I'm flesh and blood,…
— Christian Bale
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It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year,…
— Barack Obama
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My job is to confront apathy and confront all the forces that tend to batter each of us down with all kind of oppression, even…
— Lydia Lunch
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It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.
— Eric Metaxas
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Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
— Charles M. Blow
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Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, enthusiasm over lethargy, love over hate.…
— Cory Booker
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
— Plato
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
— George Bernard Shaw
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...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.
— William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw
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The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual…
— Alexander Fraser Tytler
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Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and…
— Charles Bukowski
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Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
— Horace Greeley
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Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who Wrote These Apathy Quotes
229 authors contributed a total of 284 Apathy Quotes, led by these top contributors: