Quotes About Apathy

Remark the difference, Lord Faide, between man and metal. A man's normal state is something near madness; he is at all times balanced on a knife-edge between hysteria and apathy. His senses tell him far less of the world then he thinks they do. It is a simple trick to deceive man, to posses him with a demon, to drive him out of his mind, to kill him. But metal is insensible; metal reacts only as its shape and condition dictates, or by the working of miracles.

Nothing in the world is better suited to laziness than orthodoxy. If you gag your mouth, stop up your ears and put a blinder over your eyes, you can sleep peacefully.

I don't care, I don't care, I don't care.

In life, you will always have a third of people who love you, a third who hate you and a third who couldn't care less. - From an interview with Gabrielle Reese

The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance, which is the price we pay for segregation. That's what segregation means. You don't know what's happening on the other side of the wall, because you don't want to know.

Anyway, I have long had a very definite tendency to tune out the moment I come anywhere near either a pulpit or a soapbox.

And I am not being frivolous now, either. Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as joyless as they have become.

Neither love nor terror makes one blind; indifference makes one blind.

Complete moral tolerance is possible only when men have become completely indifferent to each other—that is to say, when society is at an end.

There are some things which are so horrific that some people feel they can't do anything about it: that the natural, understandable response is to tune it out.

Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.

You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement – none.

Well, I'm not a big sports fan.

I'm not much of a sports fan.

I've never really been worried about being in the spotlight. I could care less.

Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism.

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.

Go to a Cubs game and see how many people are in the stands, because when you can't win, nobody cares anymore.

The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.