Apathy Quotes

Apathy Quote of the day

It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horseor that the hummingbird is so seldomseenor that we are too senseless to goinsane.coffee. give us more of that NOTHINGcoffee.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

Once conform once do what others do because they do it and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair but to he who does not concern us at all.

For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishFrustrationRageDespairA dullness that rings like wooden thunder

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.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

When all that's left mediocrity and each day just bleeds into the next.

Apathy.The reason you may wake up one day being not only a 2nd class citizen, but a criminal because of who you are - and then wonder why 'somebody' didn't do something when there was still time?

When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things.

I stood there, watching her. The whole world was a dream, I realized. Everyone was acting in a bad soap opera. The whole world was one big FOX TV show.

Those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.

Apathy is not compatible with love

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

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

Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.

Fight Apathy! ... or don't.

Apathy is the door to ignorance. Empathy is the door to wisdom.

The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans.

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

When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.

He stumbled out of his phlegmatic apathy, when she entered his life like an epiphany.

The gut is the seat of all feeling.

Courage can't exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar.

Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom.

The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed.

If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much.But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.

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

Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum qtd. in Halter)

We may not choose apathy, but when we choose anything other than love and empathetic justice, we get apathy by default.

At the end of the day--of almost any day, regardless of what we have done or left undone--apathy tells us that it's perfectly acceptable to live with illusions of our own justice.

A subtle reason for apathy is that justice rarely has much to do with our lives. Unless we've personally been victims of injustice, we can take for granted that life is generally fair.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.

To be poor is to suffer. It's the kind of suffering that freezes the heart stone cold.

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.

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

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

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

The principle locations of exploitation have moved, through the mechanism of 'globalisation', to where most of us can't see them and don't really care about them if we do.

Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.

Never complain about what you permit to be.

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