Apathy Quotes

284 Apathy quotes by 229 unique authors

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. — Cyril Connolly
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything… — Albert Einstein
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. — Robert M. Hutchins
Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make… — Avan Jogia
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race… — Erica Jong
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. — Helen Keller
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of… — Helen Keller
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. — Jack Kerouac
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them. — Clare Boothe Luce
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. — Rollo May
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear. — Dan Millman
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. — Baron de Montesquieu
I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy. — Alan Rickman
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. — James Thurber
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those… — Albert Schweitzer
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of… — Adam Smith
Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that… — Joseph Sobran
I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious,… — Susan Sontag
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered. — Dorothy Thompson
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums,… — Hunter S. Thompson

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