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Quotes about Apathy


In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost;
Contracted all, retiring to the breast;
But strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Alexander Pope

Apathy at the individual level translates into insanity at the mass level.

Doug las Hofstadter

Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.

Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

William Safire

Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.

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 Maynard Hutchins

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

Haniel Long

Moments of complete apathy are the best for new creations.

Philip Breedveld

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

William Safire

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

Haniel Long

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

William Safire

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 and destructive effect upon our society than the others.

Eleanor Rooseveldt

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

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

Bob Inglis

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

William Safire

I told him, 'Son, what is it with you: Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.' (on a former player)

Frank Layden

Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

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