Top Apathy Quotes

His room was a sickly dual-tone of crimson and charcoal, like an Untitled Rothko, the colours bleeding into each other horribly and then rather serenely. The overall effect was overwhelmingly unapolog...

The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

Apathy Definition

(n.) Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion.

This is a day of celebration!Today, we are divorcing the pastand marrying the present.Dance,and you will find Godin every room.Today, we are divorcing resentmentand marrying forgiveness.Sing,and God w...

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, w...

If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.

When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.

Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.

Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.

We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.

Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.

When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things.

He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The danger, when not seen, has the imperfect vagueness of human thought. The fear grows shadowy; and Imagin...

Apathy is unconditional surrender where we are driven into hiding by unrealistic fear, and firmly held there by the misinformed belief that we are helpless to do anything other than hide. Therefore, a...

For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishFrustrationRageDespairA dullness that rings like wooden thunder

It isn't what you will do for your children that makes you a great mother or father. It is what you do for God that isn't self serving, which sets the stage for children to learn to care about somethi...

Courage can't exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar.

Voter apathy was, and will remain the greatest threat to democracy.

Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.