Apathy

The worst sin towards our fellow creature is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them thats the essence of inhumanity.

- Josh Billings Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

- Edmund Burke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.

- Bodie Thoene Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We are going to check whether signing up people automatically will help stem the denial and apathy about flood risk which can discourage people from registering for flood warnings.

- John Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'm just concerned that geographically, on the ground, we may find ourselves in two years time talking about nothing. Do we resign the rest of the Middle East to another 10, 15, 20 years of insecurity and violence And I think there is apathy also in the international community. Most countries, as we do, have gotten peace fatigue. I guess that's the best way of describing it.

- King Abdullah Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I was really surprised by the lack of awareness, by the apathy two years ago, ... The absence of that today is not surprising.

- Andy Grove Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I think there's apathy in the market. The cruel reality is that earnings do matter and, in the absence of any new catalyst, you're going to get days like this.

- Barry Hyman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.

- Eleanor Roosevelt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

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For the most part, parents are very supportive. We rarely have a problem, and if we do, it is they get too enthusiastic. That is a good problem to have. We very rarely have apathy.

- Pat Mitchell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whinning about for years.

- Kurt Cobain Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

- Haniel Long Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Leo Buscaglia Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Adams Keller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

True religion is not a narrow dogma. It is not external observance. It is faith in God and living in the presence of God. It means faith in a future life, in truth and Ahimsa. There prevails today a sort of apathy towards these things of the Spirit.

- Mohandas Gandhi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered.

- James Forten Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

- Elie Wiesel Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 J. Toynbee Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

- Adrian Cronauer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

- Conor Cruise O'Brien Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

- Horace Greeley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The American attitude toward the arts has completed a 180-degree turn since the end of World War II. From one of apathy, indifference, and even hostility, it has become one of eager, if sometimes ignorant, enthusiasm.

- Alvin Toffler Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

- Frank Moore Colby Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Clare Boothe Luce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

- Alan Rickman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes