Apathy Quotes - Page 5

You can present the material, but you can't make me care.

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.

apathy is about as near to the undertaker as you can get.

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

Remember, I'm not running against Rick Perry; I'm running against apathy.

Children are harmed more by our apathy than our error.

The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy.

Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be.

The 2016 presidential campaign is heating up. Can you feel the indifference, the apathy?

It is far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism, for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.

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

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

Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.

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

Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the world. Rather, consolation is the first step in regaining personal equilibrium and strength, which necessarily precedes the ability to act.

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

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay?