Quotes About Apathy

The trade union members who formed themselves into militias and chased the Fascists back to Saragossa in the first few weeks of war had done so largely because they believed themselves to be fighting for working-class control; but it was becoming more and more obvious that working-class control was a lost cause, and the common people, especially the town proletariat, who have to fill the ranks in any war, civil or foreign, could not be blamed for a certain apathy.

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked on as a matter of indifference. They

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Wie soll man in einer Welt leben in der einem alles und alles gleichgültig oder zum Ekel ist?

can't get too excited about

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

I don't give a tinker's damn for posterity.

I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes, I'm just not mad at it.

When you have heart disease, you start to be tired of everything. It's like getting older. You become more white, and after that, grey. You have no feeling for anything.

To be honest, I don't care how it went in.

To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.

To be honest, I am not really excited by most of the offers I get.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Perhaps, beguiled by custom and order, one's sense of evil goes numb.

I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.

What did she want? Frances couldn't tell. She wasn't sure she cared any more. There had been too much dancing back and forth. The night had been over-stretched: it had lost its tension.

maybe it's just my imagination but I can smell the stench of a decaying humanity wallowing in the throes of hypocrisy, apathy, misery and I take a DEEP breath before stepping out.

If I killed myself now would I make the papers would anyone care I already know the answer to that besides it's irrelevant

when you despise yourself and everyone else in the world, you just give up, say fuck it, and pray the fuckers will accidentally press the big bomb buttons

Q: What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? A: Don't know, don't care.

I tried synchronized swimming, but felt, over time, I was just going through the motions.

People shouldn't take my lack of interest in what they're saying personally. I don't really care about what I'm saying most of the time.

I don't go to concerts much. I've heard everything. When I do go to movies, I walk out half the time. As for literature, I've read everything.

so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.