apathy

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

A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A to a student who answered I don't know and I don't care.

- Richard Pratt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

Science 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

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

The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead to apathy and indifference, the I-dont-care reaction, or to a more intensified desire to study and to understand. Unfortunately, the first reaction is the more popular one.

- Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo, MD Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Charles-Louis de Secondat, Bar Montesquieu Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I don't know. But I've watched them here for twenty years and I've seen the change. They used to rush through here, and it was wonderful to watch, it was the hurry of men who knew where they were going and were eager to get there. Now they're hurrying because they are afraid. It's not a purpose that drives them, it's fear. They're not going anywhere, they're escaping. And I don't think they know what it is that they want to escape. They don't look at one another. They jerk when brushed against. They smile too much, but it's an ugly kind of smiling it's not joy, it's pleading. I don't know what it is that's happening to the world.

- Ayn Rand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- George Bernard Shaw 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

I don't know why. You don't know why. Most likely God doesn't know why, either. It's just Government business, that's all.

- Unknown 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

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

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

- William Lloyd Garrison 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

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

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

- James Goldsmith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If you don't expand the freedom of the citizens, you'll find yourself in a country which quite comfortably, under the pretext of apathy, will not defend democracy.

- Jose Rodriguez 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

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

- William Bernbach Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

- Dan Millman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

- Robert Hutchins 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

No one cares. Apathy is a disease and some days I long for it.

- Zoe Trope Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

- Carl Gustav Jung Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes