21 Quotes on Apathy

• Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

  Author: William Whitelaw

• When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• 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.

  Author: Arnold Toynbee

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

  Author: William Safire

• I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

  Author: Alan Rickman

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

  Author: Elliot Richardson

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

  Author: Conor O'Brien

• 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.

  Author: Charles Montesquieu

• Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

  Author: Dan Millman

• 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.

  Author: Helen Keller

• Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

  Author: Helen Keller

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

  Author: Robert Hutchins

• Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

  Author: Horace Greeley

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

  Author: James Goldsmith

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

  Author: David Geffen

• The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

  Author: William Garrison

• I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

  Author: Adrian Cronauer

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

  Author: Cyril Connolly

• Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

  Author: Frank Colby

• Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

  Author: Jimmy Buffett

• In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

  Author: William Bernbach

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