Apathy Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Relationship, Self Esteem, Science

  My Religion (1927) ch. 6

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• The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Dangerous Situations, Temper, Apathetic

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• Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... 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

  Honesty, Lying, Integrity

  "Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin". Book by Ralph Chaplin, 1922.

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

  Rollo May

  Friendship, Depression, Hate

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.

  Anna Quindlen

  Doctors, Rights, Medicine

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• The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Decision, Political, Politics

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

  Cyril Connolly

  Class, Delirium Tremens, Literature

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• Indifference creates an artificial peace.

  Mason Cooley

  Indifference, Artificial

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• Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

  Arthur Koestler

  Creativity, Self, Empathy

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• No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.

  Cory Booker

  Kindness, Hate, Despair

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Mar 01, 2016

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  I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.

  Bradley Whitford

  Mistake, Hero, Despair

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• What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Good Life, Eye

  Saint Augustine (2010). “The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)”, p.31, CUA Press

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• There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Too Late, Complacency, Action

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• Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

  Rollo May

  Running, Long, Add

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.

  Marcus Mumford

  Enemy, Bigger, Ifs

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• In my better moments, I think of apathy as purpose's sleep. In my worse moments, when I'm trying to fix it or get rid of it, I call it feeling lazy, depressed, or useless.

  Dawna Markova

  Sleep, Thinking, Feelings

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• I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

  Helen Keller

  Tragedy, Way, Found

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Empathy, Faults

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• The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love-if your so consumed with hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them because your thinking about them for the same amount of time.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Love Is, Thinking

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• Apathy borders upon folly.

  Publilius Syrus

  Borders, Folly

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• Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

  Emiliano Salinas

  Activism

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• Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.

  Warsan Shire

  War, Cancer, Necks

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• For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Truth, Reality, Empathy

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• The oppposite of Love is not Hate - it's apathy.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Hate, Love Is

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