Quotes About Apathy

In niets onderscheidden ze zich van de heikneuters waar ze later hun voeten op zouden vegen. Het waren nullen in elke betekenis van het woord, nullen die de kern vormen van een fatsoenlijk en jammerlijk burgerdom. Ze sliepen best en klaagde nooit; ze waren niet vrolijk en niet ongelukkig. De onverschilligen die Dante naar het voorportaal van de Hel heeft verwezen. De lui van de bovenlaag.

Ninguna luna plateará nunca su apatía.

He had passed beyond the lure of champagne and oysters, beyond the need of light and space. He was like the dodo which buries its head in the sand and whistles out of its asshole.

Nature cared not a jot.

It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

I rejected the traditional notion of 'women's work,' but I never thought of my early ambitions in a feminist way, exactly. Primarily I rebelled against apathy and limited education. I was rejecting a whole way of life that I thought trapped everyone.

I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy.

I don't really know or care about trends.

I had only one idea before me throughout the trial, i.e. to show complete indifference towards the trial in spite of serious nature of the charges against us.

Tibor Fischer, Good To Be God

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate — it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.

People are gonna believe what they want to believe And like I said before, I really don't give a damn.

The universe does not care what we want.

There are many reasons why people might only go through the motions. Two of the most common are that they do not believe a course of action is feasible or that they do not believe it makes sense.

When you were nineteen, you couldn't give a monkey's

It is possible to feel angered by the compromises all around us, while remaining apathetic to the compromises inside us.

I think the real question's not how are they dead, but why don't they care.

la apatía y la cobardía de una generación pueden desperdiciar y borrar lo que generaciones anteriores consiguieron con sangre, sudor y lágrimas.

To his ear, of course, she suffered some from that malady of her generation- an almost laconic indifference toward speaking concisely- a circling and avoidance of linguistic specificity that bordered on a verbal form of shoulder-shrugging.

Far from being incompatible, politics and Christianity are, in reality, inseparable. What don't mix are Christianity and social apathy. (p. 117)

It' s easy to weep when staying far away, doing nothing.

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.