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Apathy's a problem but who cares? — Michael Parenti

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. — Leo Buscaglia

It is our birthright to uncover the soul - to remove the layers of fear or shame or apathy or cynicism that conceal it. — Elizabeth Lesser

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom. — Terry Pratchett

Make your "yes" mean yes, and your "no" mean no. — John Wooden

The Spirit wants to make you threatening to all the forces of injustice and apathy and complacency that keep our world from flourishing. — John Ortberg

You are a soulless monster whose fright mask is incapable of capturing human expressions. — Colson Whitehead

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care. — Jimmy Buffett

The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair

the opposite of love is not anger - it is apathy. — Bob Proctor

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 any sense. — Avan Jogia

When you have been often rejected, you become traumatized and develop a kind of apathy and nonchalance to being accepted. — Emmanuel Olawale

Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people.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

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. — Juan Montalvo

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. — Terry Eagleton

Apathy is a trap. There is no challenge ... so there is no reward. Remember, there is always free cheese in a mousetrap. — Steve Maraboli

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 Maynard Hutchins

There were enough examples, often of a heroic nature, which proved that apathy could be overcome, irritability suppressed. — Viktor E. Frankl

Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive. — Al Franken

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens. — Mike Quade

Is apathy not the nature of God? — Lionel Suggs

The opposite of liking is not disliking, after all. The opposite of liking is apathy. — N.K. Jemisin

Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand. — Bodie Thoene

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all
the apathy of human beings. — Helen Keller

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor. — Peggy Noonan

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. — Anne Michaels

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

Choose empathy over apathy. — Mango Wodzak

Apathy? Apathy? I don't care about apathy. — Ana Pattacini

If I look at the mass I will never act. — Mother Teresa

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. — Conor Cruise O'Brien

Apathy. What's hard to understand? They don't care. Not until it affects them. — Donna Lynn Hope

Hate is not the opposite of Love. It is apathy. — Amish Tripathi

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived ... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing! — Paddy Chayefsky

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more. — Geoff Mulgan

Love from strangers is better than apathy from relatives. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The oppposite of Love is not Hate - it's apathy. — Leo Buscaglia

Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be. — Eric Thomas

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility. — Sharon M. Draper

Comfort ... was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison. — Ashim Shanker

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence. — Tanith Lee

Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness. — Winkie Pratney

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy. — William Whitelaw

Never complain about what you permit to be. — Orrin Woodward

It's enthusiasm, not apathy, that makes the world go 'round. — Tony Alessandra

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity. — Eric Metaxas

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

You love it. You love it and you hate it. What you don't feel is apathy. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

Apathy between family members makes the blood they share turn to water. — Penny Reid

The Planet Earth is a cesspool of avarice and apathy. — Robert Peate

It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say. — David Levithan

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy. — Bret Easton Ellis

You can present the material, but you can't make me care. — Bill Watterson

When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy. — Gil Penchina

The world doesn't end in revolt and revolution ... it ends in apathy. — Nick Shamhart

The dead know everything, but don't give a damn. — Joanne Harris

We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Indifference creates an artificial peace. — Mason Cooley

A woman's apathy is far more devastating than her wrath. — Gasmaskman

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings - and sometimes, that has to be at a distance. — Vironika Tugaleva

The opposite of love isn't hate, it's apathy. — John Le Carre

While ignorance might be bliss, apathy can be deadly. — Todd Stocker

Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck. — Warsan Shire

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something. — Emiliano Salinas

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. — James Truslow Adams

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire. — Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by. — Beck

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found. — David Hume

To make no decision in regard to the growth of authoritarian government is already a decision for it. — Francis A. Schaeffer

It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been pretty foul. — Moby

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

Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness. — Isaac Marion

Fight Apathy! ... or don't. — Fallout New Vegas Graffiti

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. — Marshall McLuhan

I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy. — Alan Rickman

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues. — David Geffen

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer. — Learned Hand

Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move. — Shannon L. Alder

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Remember, I'm not running against Rick Perry; I'm running against apathy. — Kinky Friedman

Until you've faced a crowd of graduating seniors, you have not experienced apathy ... — Gillian Roberts

I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much effort. — Dennis Miller

I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple. — Gillian Flynn

Apathy is not compatible with love — Simon Tam

Feelings of apathy as they relate to our relationships often stem from insufficiently paying attention to those around us. — Sharon Salzberg

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent
itself in violence
but more generally takes the form of apathy — Joseph Conrad

The great danger of law in modern student affairs practice is apathy, acceptance, and blind disobedience. — Peter Lake

HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death) — Terry Pratchett

If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it. — S. Kelley Harrell

In bitter manuscript remarks on other men's notions about solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight. — George Eliot

Do you believe in apathy at first sight? — Ashleigh Brilliant

My own apathy is bone chilling. — Lionel Shriver

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence. — Marcus Aurelius

I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older. — Scott Weiland

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion — C. G. Jung

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice. — Rollo May