Quotes About Apathy

The greatest threat to religion in any society is not persecution, but rather apathy born of irrelevance.

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")

Kensuke and his wife had, like all bored people, a sense of kindness that was close to disease.

There is nothing in the least special about you. I guarantee you a long life. You have not been chosen by the gods, you will never be at one with your acts, you do not have in you the green light to flash like young lightning with the speed of the gods and destroy yourself. All you have is a certain premature senility. Your life will be suited for coupon-clipping. Nothing more.

He was a man who had already died once. There was no reason why he should feel any sense of responsibility or attachment to the world. To him, it was nothing more than a sheet of newspaper covered in the scribblings of cockroaches.

Non mi curavo di nulla, e d'altronde nulla si curava di me.

Just as the Atlantic slave trade did not stem from hatred towards Africans, so the modern animal industry is not motivated by animosity. Again, it is fuelled by indifference.

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed.

Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency.

It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia, apathy and laziness, (known in Sankrit as the quality of tapas) that overwhelms this age. Despite this seemingly gloomy prognosis, there is a way out of this predicament for those with the will and stamina to awaken from the rampant lethargy, within and outside of themselves, to take action.

What am I going to do? Not read, anyway… I hate reading! Finally change that leaky shower head? Never! At least this way there's somebody to cry over my fate.

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.

apathy is a disease and some days i long for it.

He doesn't care about his own life so he doesn't care about the lives of others.

Bad enough, but he was limp and vacant, passive and beyond caring. A walking invitation to the kind of man who doesn't need an invitation, prefers not to be invited.

But Henry didn't care how sexily I described the idea of him dead. He just listened and nodded like I was giving him directions to the next town.

Scapegrace went to roll his eyes, but lost his enthusiasm halfway through and ended up looking at the ceiling.

Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.

Digital age of business and world shall move up from apathy, to sympathy, to empathy.

I didn't like mundane life.

No one gives a shit if you write a book or not.

Because I don't care anymore, Ms. Beezemeyer, I want to say. Not about Amade Malherbeau, my classes, college or much of anything. Because the gray world I've managed to live in for the past two years has started to turn black around the edges.

At the end of an evening, her women friends would hug her, or a friend's husband might slip his arm around her waist to kiss her, just a little too suggestively, and the coldness in her would respond, I don't give a damn if I ever see any of you again.