Quotes and Sayings About Apathy
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the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.
-- Abigail McCarthy -
I was faced more with apathy than opposition.
-- Adrian Cronauer -
Apathy is grossly undervalued and never there for me when I need it.
-- Alafair Burke -
Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you.
-- Alyson Noel -
The oppposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual oppposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.
-- Amish Tripathi -
Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?
-- Anna Katharine Green -
We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.
-- Antanas Mockus -
apathy is about as near to the undertaker as you can get.
-- Arlene Francis -
For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
Theres nothing wrong with making the best of ones declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that were seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.
-- Aubrey de Grey -
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 -
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 -
Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong.
-- Bodo Balsys -
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.
-- Criss Jami -
HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.
-- David Geffen -
In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.
-- David Hume -
My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy
-- David Wong -
The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy.' I'm like, 'What?' I don't walk up to a friend and go 'That's a stylin' looking vortex of apathy you've got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself.'
-- Devin Townsend -
Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.
-- Don Henley -
toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.
-- Dorothee Solle -
Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.
-- Emiliano Salinas -
Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.
-- Epes Sargent -
It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.
-- Eric Metaxas -
I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lifted from apathy and ignorance. I write because of a compulsion to make something out of the nothing that is my own life.
-- F. Sionil José -
To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent; none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.
-- Fanny Burney -
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
-- Frank Moore Colby -
Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.
-- G. Edward Griffin