Quotes about apathy

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

Buscaglia, Leo on apathy
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"Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak."

Chaplin, Ralph on apathy
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"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

Chopin, Frederic on apathy
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"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Einstein, Albert on apathy
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"Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted."

Huxley, Aldous on apathy
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"We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings."

Keller, Helen on apathy
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"I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!"

Kerouac, Jack on apathy
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"If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on apathy
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"You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world."

Luce, Clare Boothe on apathy   

"There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference."

Montalvo, Juan on apathy
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"I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn."

Parker, Dorothy on apathy
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"The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency."

Sarnoff, David on apathy   

"The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."

Thurber, James on apathy   

"Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."

Woolf, Virginia on apathy
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"Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice."

Toynbee, Arnold on apathy   

"Apathy occurs when you aren't interested enough in your own life to be the chief influence in it"

Trean, A. Brandon on apathy