Apathy Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Believe, People, Feelings

  "An Interview With Howard Zinn". Interview with Stefan Sirucek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2010.

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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

  Radicalism, Our Society, Rich

  "The 50 new radicals" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2012.

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• Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Long, Empathy, Objects

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.2755, Delphi Classics

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• The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Anorexia, Eating Disorder, Dignity

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Positive, Hope, Men

  Clare Boothe Luce (1941). “European spring”

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• If I look at the mass I will never act.

  Mother Teresa

  Looks, Storytelling, Mass

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• 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

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.369, Duke University Press

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• Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

  James Goldsmith

  Tolerance, Weakness, Virtue

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

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Feelings, Skins, Lifetime

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

  Adrian Cronauer

  Opposition

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• A lot of people felt defeated and hopeless by Trump's election. But I feel his election should energize people to resist apathy, ignorance, sexism, xenophobia, and racism.

  Shepard Fairey

  Ignorance, Racism, People

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Tolerance, Brotherly, Interest

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

  Joe Strummer

  Hippie

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• The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

  James Thurber

  Differences, Comedy, Decadence

  The Observer, February 05, 1961.

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• Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you.

  Alyson Noel

  Hate, Caring, Cases

  Alyson Noel (2010). “Blue Moon”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• The good inside of all of us is wrapped in a layer of apathy and we forget how much potential we have within us, in each and every one of us, to change the world for the better for ourselves and our children, and thus to bring about oneness.

  Shari Arison

  Children, Oneness, World

  "Coming to Do Good" by Shari Arison, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2011.

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• If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Tyrants, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.82, Rowman & Littlefield

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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

  Sad, Death, Desire

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• 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

  Disappointment, Believe, Frustration

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• Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

  Frederic Chopin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Empathy

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• 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

  Wisdom, Democracy, Citizens

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• Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Men, History, Watches

  "The Columbia Book of Quotations" edited by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, (p. 900), 1993.

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• The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

  Elie Wiesel

  Opposites, I Hate My Life, Indifference

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• Make your "yes" mean yes, and your "no" mean no.

  John Wooden

  Mean Girls, Mean

  Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Real, Law, Long

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.318, UPNE

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