Best 283 quotes in «apathy quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.-

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

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.

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 creates an artificial peace.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

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.

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

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

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

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

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.