Quotes About Apathy

La tristeza se había cristalizado en indiferencia.

I am a clinical zombie.

The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

He is an old bore; even the grave yawns for him.

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

Boredom is a sickness of the soul.

There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.

The causes of mistakes are "I didn't know"; "I didn't think"; and "I didn't care."

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

As the sergeant said to the recruit: "You might as well be happy, mate - no one cares if you ain't."

In the 00s, it was often claimed that political apathy had replaced political participation. Membership of political parties and electoral turnout were both said to be in irreversible decline.

Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise.

Shopping turns me off.

I remember when I realised, as a child, 'That stuff on the TV about nuclear bombs is real! Why isn't everyone running around shouting 'Aaarrgghh'? Why are people still buying bicycle clips?'

I was a guy who abandoned a TV show. I didn't care about people.

The reality of the world we live in is that people sometimes aren't interested in many circumstances; no matter how much young radicals yell at them, that isn't what they want to do right now.

If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.

Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.

Yogi Berra put it best, "If people don't want to come, we can't stop them."

People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.