Quotes About Apathy

Today the world seems to be like a stagnated place, because the majority of humanity are not eager to see others rise.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the curtain going up.

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

There are no good or evil people. There is only a great, unfathomable mob trampling itself underfoot. The life-giving sources of the old morality have dried up and vanished in the sands of oblivion. There's no other source to draw from, no place to refresh oneself. There is no example, no inspiration. It is night. A night of indifference, apathy, chaos.

?wiat si? wyrówna?. Nie ma z?ych i dobrych. Jest wielki, nieszcz?sny t?um depcz?cy sobie po nogach. Jest noc. Noc oboj?tno?ci, noc apatii, noc chaosu.

Apathy is the glove in which evil slips its hand.

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

He flicked a bored glance at the computer in her lap

She also wondered why she wasn't able to care more about the important things happening in the world. There was the Vietnam War. She knew boys who had died, and there was always Dr. King, cold in the ground. Even though Willie Mae hadn't been bitten by a dog, she had been in Birmingham when the German shepherds were let loose. And where had Mother been when all of this was going on? She was busy learning to be a wife.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

I don't pay attention to him. I don't even ignore him.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

His baseline attitude toward other humans was that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was not going to expend any effort whatsoever getting them to change the way they thought.

The Universe is blind to our sorrows and indifferent to our pains. Have a nice day!

He sank into an apathy of heat and dust and sweat, and joined the morose ten per cent of men in South Fast Asia Command whose wives had let them down.