Best 283 quotes in «apathy quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

The opposite of love is apathy or hatred.

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 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.

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.'

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.

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.

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 worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude.

The world is a dangerous place to live

Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great collective passion of our time.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

To do peace, you must get up off your apathy.

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.

Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

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.

To tell the truth is an act of love. To withhold the truth is an act of hate. Or worse, apathy.

Until you've faced a crowd of graduating seniors, you have not experienced apathy.

We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy towards apathy, isolation, passivity, helplessness and separation.

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.

We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

According to Zeno, a passion is an unnatural motion of the soul, but with strong will one can achieve an apathy. If he was alive today, he would have been proud of us.

A complete atheist stands on the next-to-last upper step to the most complete faith (he may or may not take that step), while the indifferent one has no faith, apart from a bad fear.

Addiction brings apathy. Break the apathy, and you break the addiction.

Apathy is a silent killer.

When you open up to the ultimate, immediately it pours into you. You are no longer an ordinary human being - you have transcended. Your insight has become the insight of the whole existence. Now you are no longer separate - you have found your roots.

All the girls stared at me with hatred in their eyes. It was a big drama that had to be acted out. But deep down, nobody really cared. The other girls didn't care about Jennifer. Jennifer didn't care about me. I didn't care about anything. Everyone was so full of crap.

Although he longed to see Louise, and to see Aleph, he increasingly lacked the will to go.

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?

Apathy. What’s hard to understand? They don’t care. Not until it affects them.