Apathy is a state of indifference, or the suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation, or passion. Profound apathy quotes will make you think hard about life while helping you keep your emotions in check.
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Most Famous Apathy Quotes
Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension. – John Dos Passos
Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand. – Bodie Thoene
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. – Henri Frederic Amiel
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy. – William Bernbach
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
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 de Montesquieu
It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy. – Hillary Clinton
If I look at the mass I will never act. – Mother Teresa
You can present the material, but you can’t make me care. – Bill Watterson
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings. – Helen Keller
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. – Horace Greeley
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. – Rollo May
Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something. – Emiliano Salinas
It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need. – Shannon L. Alder
Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know, and I don’t care. – Jimmy Buffett
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don’t know and I don’t care. – William Safire
Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience. – Mason Cooley
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people. – Peter Marshall
Bad people are less a problem than indifferent people. – Gerhard Kocher
Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless. – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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. – William Osler
To be apathetic is literally to be without passion. – Erwin Raphael McManus
Apathy is not compatible with love – Simon Tam
Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile. – Elie Wiesel
The greatest danger to our future is apathy. – Jane Goodall
Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable. – John Stott
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have. – Charles C. Noble
Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair but to he who does not concern us at all. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality. – Dante Alighieri
Indifference may not wreck a man’s life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run. – Bliss Carman
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
Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted. – Aldous Huxley
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. – Bishop Desmond Tutu
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account. – Haniel Long
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say. – Martin Luther
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart. – John Petit-Senn
Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent. – George Steiner
Apathy and evil. The two-work hand in hand. They are the same, really. Evil wills it. Apathy allows it. Evil hates the innocent and the defenseless most of all. Apathy doesn’t care as long as it’s not personally inconvenienced. – Jake Thoene
Apathy is the death knell of any order. Once a system has degenerated to the point that apathy is the only thing holding it in place it, it is in its twilight phase. Then one day the music stops. – JOHN BERLING HARDY
Apathy – If we don’t take care of the customer, maybe they’ll stop bugging us. – Larry Kersten
Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it. – George Carlin
It is important for people to realize that we can make progress against world hunger, that world hunger is not hopeless. The worst enemy is apathy. – Reverend David Beckmann
Apathy occurs when you aren’t interested enough in your own life to be the chief influence in it. – A. Brandon Trean
Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody’s got a louder mouth than them; it doesn’t make any sense. – Avan Jogia
Public apathy is more powerful than public opinion. There’s more of it. – Dr. Jim Boren
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm. – Arnold J. Toynbee
A lot of you cared, just not enough. – Jay Asher
Apathy is a trap. There is no challenge… so there is no reward. Remember, there is always free cheese in a mousetrap. – Steve Maraboli
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. – Juan Montalvo
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. – J K Rowling
Always remember, the future of all of our tomorrows will be reflected by how we react to the mediocrity and apathy of others today. – George Kincses
Most ignorance is the direct result of apathy; people don’t know because they don’t care to know. – Vikrant Parsai
Your life begins to end the moment you start being silent about the things that matter. – Martin Luther King Jr
The world is in chaos not because of violence by bad people but because of silence of good people. – Ritu Ghatourey
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. – Plato
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity. – George Bernard Shaw
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. – John Stuart Mill
