Quotes About Apathy

it was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion

I guess we'll just sit around here and casually die, then.

I don't hate you, because hate is a feeling and I feel absolutely nothing for you.

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.

guys have feelings too. But like...who cares? -Inspirational poster

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

When the silent majority opens its mouth, it is usually to yawn.

It's not that I don't care about seeing her baby, it's that I don't care about seeing any baby. Also

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

She switches moods in a heartbeat not because she's out of control - she just doesn't care what it looks like to switch. She watches other people stay in moods just to seem committed to something.

One thing Mauser leaned over the years was that students, almost to a one, viewed the world from the inside of a fishbowl. They had the bigger points covered—genocide in Kamchatka, illegal whale hunting in the Arctic Circle, shit like the. But if you asked about anything relevant to their lives they'd look at you with glazed eyes and go right back to sipping their double-mocha lattes.

poco es lo que se hace público, poco lo que interesa, poco lo que quiere conocer la gente, que está fijada en lo suyo, cada uno en lo propio y lo de los demás qué importa.

nos detiene a veces lo que no nos importa—

Set wasn't interested in ruling the galaxy. Or destroying the Jedi. It sounded like a lot of work.

Our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.

Do not allow yourselves to be cajoled into supposing that political apathy is dangerous. Dictators such as Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin are raised to power, not by apathy, but by mass fanaticism.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

And so it was that at the age of thirty-five or so I dismissed all interest in public affairs, and have regarded them ever since as a mere spectacle, mostly a comedy, rather squalid, rather hackneyed, whereof I already knew the plot from beginning to end. I have written a little about them now and then,