Apathy quotations

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◆ Always remember, the future of all of our tomorrows will be reflected by how we react to the mediocrity and apathy of others today.

- George Kincses99

◆ 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 Gordon98

◆ Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

- Frank Moore Colby98

◆ In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

- William Bernbach98

◆ The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems

- Mahatma Gandhi98

◆ No one cares. Apathy is a disease and some days I long for it.

- Zoe Trope98

◆ When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, dont sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may be delivering the worst messages today, but history shows that grass-roots energy has the power to change anything when that energy is focused toward justice

- Senator John Kerry98

◆ Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

- Horace Greeley98

◆ Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand

- Bodie Thoene98

◆ I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

- Susan Sontag98

◆ Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

- Rollo May98

◆ 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 Keller98

◆ The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

- William Lloyd Garrison98

◆ 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 Hutchins98

◆ Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance

- Thomas Carlyle98