Quotes About Apathy

In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of one's grandchildren, and since these are institutional maladies, they will not be easy to overcome. While much remains uncertain, we can assure ourselves, with fair confidence, that future generations will not forgive us our silence and apathy.

What's the greatest problem in America today? Is it ignorance or is it apathy?" One time a student answered, "I don't know, and I don't care!

The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

If you hate everything, you're a banal asshole…but if you don't hate anything, you're boring.

In any situation, the villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

So this, I suspect, is where we really begin: In any situation, the villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

If you did not really care, any experience could be entertaining.

Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.

A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls and says her kids won't behave. Without missing a beat, I tell her, Kill yourself. A man calls to say his car won't start. Kill yourself. A woman calls to ask what time the late movie starts. Kill yourself. She asks, Isn't this 555-1327? Is this the Moorehouse CinePlex? I say, Kill yourself. Kill yourself. Kill yourself.

You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

After fight club you're so relaxed, you just cannot care.

It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't love.

Still screaming. As if the stars give a shit.

Nobody cared if he lived or died, and the feeling was fucking mutual.

Tyler said he was nobody. Nobody cared if he lived or died, and the feeling was fucking mutual.

No passion, only sudden lust, and just as sudden indifference.

could have cared less

Coffee is coffee to me, I don't mind what country it comes from, who picks it or under what conditions, and I really don't give a damn who serves it or what they're getting paid as long as they get it right.

Suffering is intended to guard man from apathy, from psychic rigor mortis.

Apathy, the blunting of the emotions and the feeling that one could not care any more, were the symptoms arising during the second stage of the prisoner's psychological reactions, and which eventually made him insensitive to daily and hourly beatings. By means of this insensibility the prisoner soon surrounded himself with a very necessary protective shell.

The experiences of camp life show that man does have a choice of action. There were enough examples, often of a heroic nature, which proved that apathy could be overcome, irritability suppressed. Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even in such terrible conditions of psychic and physical stress.

Apathy, the main symptom of the second phase, was a necessary mechanism of self-defense. Reality dimmed, and all efforts and all emotions were centered on one task: preserving one's own life and that of the other fellow.