Quotes and Sayings about Apathy
"Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care."
- Jimmy Buffett
(Related: Apathy, Care, Ignorance)
"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
(Related: Love, Apathy, Feeling, Giving, Hate)
"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
(Related: Love, Apathy, Interest, Persecution, Tolerance)
"Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium."
- Cyril Connolly
(Related: Apathy, Breeding, Class, Crime, May, Middle class)
"I was faced more with apathy than opposition."
- Adrian Cronauer
(Related: Apathy, Opposition)
"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
(Related: People, Apathy)
"HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues."
- David Geffen
(Related: Apathy, Friends, Public)
"Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness."
- James Goldsmith
(Related: Virtue, Apathy, Neighbors, Tolerance, Weakness)
"Apathy is a sort of living oblivion."
- Horace Greeley
(Related: Apathy, Living)
"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
(Related: Death, Apathy, Assassination, Democracy, Indifference, Will)
"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
(Related: Science, Apathy, Cure, May)
"We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings."
- Helen Keller
(Related: Apathy, Cure, May)
"Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is."
- Rollo May
(Related: Love, Apathy, Hate)
"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
(Related: Success, People, Fear, Successful, Willpower, Apathy, Doubt, Key)
"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."
- Charles de Montesquieu
(Related: Apathy, Democracy, Public, Tyranny, Welfare)
"Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation."
- Conor Cruise O'Brien
(Related: History, Apathy, Horror, Man)
"People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism."
- Elliot Richardson
(Related: People, Apathy, Cynicism, Deep, Skepticism)
"I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Apathy, England)
"Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care."
- William Safire
(Related: Apathy, Care, Ignorance, Speech)
"Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice."
- Arnold J. Toynbee
(Related: Imagination, Enthusiasm, Apathy, First, Practice)
"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
(Related: Action, Hope, Americans, Apathy, Despair, Disappointment, Frustration, Vote)
"Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy."
- William Whitelaw
(Related: Apathy, Country)