Apathy quotes

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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 Keller100

◆ Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.

- Chuck Palahniuk99

◆ 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 whinning about for years.

- Kurt Cobain99

◆ 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 effect.

- Eleanor Roosevelt99

◆ 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 Osler99

◆ You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.

- Chuck Palahniuk99

◆ Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.

- Charles Bukowski99

◆ Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence

- Henri Frederic Amiel99

◆ It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something

- Franklin D Roosevelt99

◆ All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

- Albert Camus99

◆ 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 Stanton99

◆ The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

- Plato99

◆ Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

- Anais Nin99

◆ What is the difference between apathy and ignorance? I don't know and I don't care.

- 99

◆ Obsession is feeling fearful that you may be losing him; detachment is knowing that he may be losing you; and apathy is the past tense of both.

- 99