Apathy Quotes

Everyone talks about apathy, but no one does anything about it.

Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest bit of interest in it.

I am in earnest. I will not equivocate – I will not excuse – I will not retreat an inch – and I will be heard. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and to hasten the resurrection of the dead.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.

I don’t know. I don’t care. And it doesn’t make any difference.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Most people are on the world, not in it – having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them – undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy – indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.