Quotes About Apathy

Francamente me ne infischio

My dear, I don't give a damn.

But why bother? So cold. A woman's life dismissed in three words.

My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don't even need to shrug. I simply don't care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply don't matter.

My weaknesses had become my strengths, my ugliness had become beauty, my apathy to the world had become a desire to save it.

Por este camino podemos deslizarnos hacía un mundo sin ciudadanos, de espectadores, un mundo que, aunque tenga las formas democráticas, habrá llegado a ser aquella sociedad letárgica, de hombres y mujeres resignados, que todas las dictaduras aspiran a implantar.

they're weak, petty, so apathetic about this gift of life as if it were all a mere Pepsi commercial.

He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.

Big Government depends on going around the country stirring up apathy—creating the sense that problems are so big, so complex, so intractable that even attempting to think about them for yourself gives you such a splitting headache it's easier to shrug and accept as given the proposition that only government can deal with them.

Las personas que no sienten ninguna emoción sufren de frialdad emocional, de atrofia interior. De ellas no brota ni una brizna de vitalidad, y tampoco dinamismo alguno.

But what was the matter with me these days was that I didn't like care much. It was like something soft getting into me and I could not pony why. What I wanted these days I did not know.

I was relieved to find her attitude to myself suggested nothing more hostile than complete indifference.

As a rule Uncle Giles took not the slightest interest in anyone or anything except himself and his own affairs—indeed was by this time all but incapable of absorbing even the smallest particle of information about others, unless such information had some immediate bearing on his own case.

She probably cared but little for either of them. She was one of those women to whom it is not given by nature to care very much for anybody. But, of the two, she certainly cared the most for Mr. Dobbs Broughton, — because Mr. Dobbs Broughton belonged to her.

As for your sister, don't talk to me about her. I don't care two straws about your sister. You must excuse me, Major Grantly, but Lady Hartletop is really too big for my powers of vision.

La indiferencia es el peso muerto de la historia. La indiferencia opera potentemente en la historia. Opera pasivamente, pero opera. Es la fatalidad; aquello con que no se puede contar. Tuerce programas, y arruina los planes mejor concebidos. Es la materia bruta desbaratadora de la inteligencia.

The indifference operates passively, but it operates.

Tolerance and Apathy are the last virtues of a dying society

Mmm," he said vaguely, trying to sound polite but disinterested.

Gerstenfeld somt eerst enkele redenen op waarom het leven in het algemeen niet de moeite waard is geleefd te worden, mensen zijn wolven op twee benen, en gaat dan in op zijn eigen situatie, die niet bijzonder dramatisch is maar die hij kennelijk toch voor uitzichtloos houdt: lusteloosheid en weerzin spelen hem parten.

They would probably never even know that the human race existed. Such monumental indifference was worse than any deliberate insult. When

Detachment was all very well, but it could change so easily to indifference.

The ladies were quite uninterested; either because they did not care for mathematics, or preferred to ignore birthdays.

What the deuce is it to me? he interrupted impatiently: you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.