(72 quotes found)
“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
“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
“You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men”
Plato
“Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.”
“There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion”
Carl Gustav Jung
“Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand”
Bodie Thoene
“If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion”
Samuel Johnson
“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
“Apathy - If we don't take care of the customer, maybe they'll stop bugging us.”
Larry Kersten