Apathy Quotes
284 Apathy quotes by 229 unique authors
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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
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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
— Cyril Connolly
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
— Helen Keller
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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
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
— Jack Kerouac
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
— Clare Boothe Luce
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
— Rollo May
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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
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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
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I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.
— Alan Rickman
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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
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
— James Thurber
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Apathy Quotes
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