Apathy Quotes - Page 2

Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.

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

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.

Apathy borders upon folly.

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.

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

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

Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

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.

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

At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

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.

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

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

The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

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

Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

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.'

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