Best 283 quotes in «apathy quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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.

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

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

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

I watched the coral reefs that I studied as a student vanish in the blink of an eye, and for decades I wrote and spoke of ocean obituaries. But big scary problems without solutions lead to apathy, not action.

Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.

Make your "yes" mean yes, and your "no" mean no.

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism.

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.

My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism.

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political debate and action, if democracy is to survive.

Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination.

Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness.

Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong.

Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.

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

[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

The 2016 presidential campaign is heating up. Can you feel the indifference, the apathy?

the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.

That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women and all of it - and then it's all taken away from you. You end up walking the hallways of always to a place called tedium and apathy, day after day after day. Years go by.

That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.

The more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it. Whoever deals with his personal suffering only in the way our society has taught him - through illusion, minimization, suppression, apathy - will deal with societal suffering in the same way.

The good inside of all of us is wrapped in a layer of apathy and we forget how much potential we have within us, in each and every one of us, to change the world for the better for ourselves and our children, and thus to bring about oneness.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy.

…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.

The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.

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

The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.

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.

The opposite of love is apathy or hatred.