Best 283 quotes in «apathy quotes» category

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

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

But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

Children are harmed more by our apathy than our error.

By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home.

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

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

Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the world. Rather, consolation is the first step in regaining personal equilibrium and strength, which necessarily precedes the ability to act.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members of Parliament are only representatives of the citizens. They cannot represent apathy and indifference. They can play the part allotted to them only if they represent intelligence and public spiritness.

Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life - is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today.

Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.

Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it.

Given the choice of apathy or someone liberating mink, burning down a research torture-laboratory, or killing a vivisectionist or other DIRECT murderer of animals, I will choose the aforesaid actions over apathy any day of the week.-

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.

First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy.

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.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

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

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

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

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

I don't know what the future holds. It seems to be going in a really bad, bad place really quickly, and I don't have the answers and I don't have the solutions and I don't know what's gonna happen to change it. But the continued apathy will only lead to a worse situation for everybody.

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.

I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

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

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

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

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

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

It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy

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

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

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.