Quotes: Apathy

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Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

Conor Cruise O’Brien

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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

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

James Goldsmith

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HIV infection and AIDS is growing – but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

David Geffen

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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Cyril Connolly

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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

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People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

Elliot Richardson

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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 J. Toynbee

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Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

Horace Greeley

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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

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