These apathy quotes will inspire you. Apathy, lack of feeling or of interest or enthusiasm, or concern.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging apathy quotes, apathy sayings, and apathy proverbs.
Best Apathy Quotes
- “I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
- “The greatest danger to our future is apathy.” ~ Jane Goodall
- “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ~ Elie Wiesel
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“Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.” ~ Dan Millman
- “The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” ~ Plato
- “The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.” ~ Robert M. Hutchins , Apathy quotes democracy
- “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.” ~ George Carlin
- “There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.” ~ Carl Jung
- “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.” ~ John Dos Passos
- “Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.” ~ Jesse Ventura
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“Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.” ~ John Stott
- “Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there’s all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.” ~ Arthur Gordon Webster
- “Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.” ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
- “That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.” ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- “…so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.” ~ Helen Keller
- “What is called “apathy” is, I believe, a feeling of helplessness on the part of the ordinary citizen, a feeling of impotence in the face of enormous power. It’s not that people are apathetic; they do care about what is going on, but don’t know what to do about it, so they do nothing, and appear to be indifferent.” ~ Howard Zinn
- “If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.” ~ Jack Kerouac
- “If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.” ~ Jack Kerouac
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“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” ~ Elie Wiesel
- “Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.” ~ Cyril Connolly
- “Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie… But rather mourn the apathetic throng –
The cowed and the meek –
Who see the world’s great anguish and its
wrong
And dare not speak!” ~ Ralph Chaplin - “The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.” ~ Alexander Fraser Tytler , Apathy quotes complacency
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“The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.” ~ Conor Cruise O’Brien
- “The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.” ~ Baron de Montesquieu
- “When too many Americans don’t vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.” ~ Paul Wellstone
- “The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.” ~ William Lloyd Garrison
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“Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.” ~ Frederic Chopin
- “HIV infection and AIDS is growing – but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.” ~ David Geffen
- “The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference” ~ Elie Wiesel
- “My generation’s apathy. I’m disgusted with it. I’m disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.” ~ Kurt Cobain
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“Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.” ~ James Thurber
- “Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom.” ~ Elizabeth George
- “The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
- “By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.” ~ William Osler
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“Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When you have an immoral society that has blatantly, proudly, violated all of the commandments of God, there is one last virtue they insist upon: tolerance for their immorality.” ~ D. James Kennedy
- “I don’t know, I don’t care, and it doesn’t make any difference.” ~ Jack Kerouac
- “I was faced more with apathy than opposition.” ~ Adrian Cronauer
- “The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.” ~ James Goldsmith
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“You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
- “You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
- “Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.” ~ Jimmy Buffett
- “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” ~ Desmond Tutu
- “Make your “yes” mean yes, and your “no” mean no.” ~ John Wooden
- “Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.” ~ Geoff Mulgan
- “All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.” ~ Noam Chomsky
- “The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
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“The world is a dangerous place to live” ~ Albert Einstein
- “The opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ~ Elie Wiesel
- “Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.” ~ Horace Greeley
- “Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.” ~ Frank Moore Colby
