Apathy Quotes - Page 3

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

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

If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.

I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lifted from apathy and ignorance. I write because of a compulsion to make something out of the nothing that is my own life.

Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

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

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

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

Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people.

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

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

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

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

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

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

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

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

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

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

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

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.