Quotes About Apathy

Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

You murder someone at the Ice Capades and the place goes apeshit. You blow someone's head off in a war zone, people step over the body and have a snack.

If Jesus, Jesse James, and a herd of pink robot unicorns strolled in walking on water, this bunch wouldn't even look up.

Not giving a shit, she decided, is like the defrost option on a car's heater that miraculously unfogs the windshield, allowing you to see where you're headed.

There is no way to make this story interesting.

because you are weak and hollow and it doesn't matter anymore.

The world was filling up with people, it seemed to him, who pulled their punches everywhere they went in life. Light beer, decaf coffee, low-sodium seltzer.

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

Nobody paid attention; they walked around or stepped over – except one woman carrying a baby, who stopped, kicked him carefully in face, then went down ramp.

I had come to realize that they either didn't care or wouldn't care. All that mattered to them was whether or not you were part of Boss's outfit.

world won't shed a tear.

Shanna planted her hands on her hips. Getting drunk is not going to solve your problems. Aye, but t'will make me no' give a damn.(Robby)

Honestly, Bessie? People don't care about anyone but themselves. They don't notice anything. They are never looking at what's interesting. They're always looking at themselves.

A life lived from the back seat, observed as it blured by. An indifferent life.

A life lived from the backseat, observed as it blurred by. An indifferent life.

Life was going on, and no one but a handful of people cared if I lived or died.

Who were these people who could live so placidly while the world fell into an acute global environmental crisis? Experts at denial. Experts at filtering their information. Many of those walking by went to church on Sundays, believed in God, voted Republican, spent their time shopping and watching TV. Obviously nice people. The world was doomed.

They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like always.

Sabine sighed. "It's not true that she doesn't care about anything. She cares about nothing very much." Lanthe

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn about anyone else

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.