Apathy Quotes - Page 4

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.

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.

The oppposite of Love is not Hate - it's apathy.

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.

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

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.

The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

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.

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

But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.

Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to die, or why Mr. Fortune and Mary Fortune: I just feel in my bones that that is the way it has to be. If I had the abstraction first I don't suppose I would write the story.

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.

Voter apathy is a civic abdication.