(72 quotes found)
“Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.”
Rollo May
“In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.”
William Bernbach
“Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.”
Jimmy Buffett
“Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.”
Arthur Gordon
“Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.”
Horace Greeley
“Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.”
Arnold Toynbee
“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
“Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium”
Cyril Connolly
“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.”
Frank Layden
“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
