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.

— Leo Buscaglia

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.

— Ralph Chaplin

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

— Frederic Chopin

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.

— Albert Einstein

Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

— Aldous Huxley

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.

— Helen Keller

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!

— Jack Kerouac

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

— Clare Boothe Luce

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

— Juan Montalvo

I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.

— Dorothy Parker

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

— David Sarnoff

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

— James Thurber

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.

— Virginia Woolf

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.

— Arnold Toynbee

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

— A. Brandon Trean