Apathy Quotes

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 Quotes Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie Dust unto dust The calm, sweet earth that mothers all who die As all men must; Mourn not your captive comrades who must dwell Too strong to strive Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell, Buried alive; 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 Quotes Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms. Anton Chekhov Quotes Indifference creates an artificial peace. Mason Cooley Quotes Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience. Mason Cooley Quotes 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 Quotes Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. Crystal Eastman Quotes 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 Quotes Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. William Feather Quotes God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom. Johann von Goethe Quotes Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. Horace Greeley Quotes The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life but that it bothers him less and less. Vaclav Havel Quotes 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 Maynard Hutchins Quotes Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. Aldous Huxley Quotes "Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let things take their course without troubling over details. Such indifference is the root of all evil." I Ching Quotes People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others. Robert Jensen Quotes Laws can embody standards; governments can enforce laws--but the final task is not a task for government. It is a task for each and every one of us. Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted--when we tolerate what we know to be wrong--when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy, or too frightened--when we fail to speak up and speak out--we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice. Robert Francis Kennedy Quotes I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference! Jack Kerouac Quotes There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. Juan Montalvo Quotes 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 Quotes "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato Quotes In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix’d: ’t is fix’d as in a frost; Contracted all, retiring to the breast; But strength of mind is exercise, not rest. Alexander Pope Quotes A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I dont know and I dont care. Richard Pratt Quotes Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand. Bodie Thoene Quotes 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 Quotes 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 Carlyle Quotes 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 Quotes Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care. Jimmy Buffett Quotes The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems. Mohandas Gandhi Quotes The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Plato Quotes 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 Quotes 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. Roosevelt Quotes Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. George Bernard Shaw Quotes It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment Elie Wiesel Quotes 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 Quotes