Apathy Quotes
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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
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
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Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people.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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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.
To make no decision in regard to the growth of authoritarian government is already a decision for it.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
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
HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.
— David Geffen
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
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 ventitself 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