APATHY QUOTES III

quotations about apathy

Apathy quote

Apathy is a risk-aversion strategy.

JOOST VAN LOON

Risk and Technological Culture


Unless Bangladeshis shun political apathy, doctors fight for journalists and truck drivers; engineers defend garment factory workers' rights; professionals fight for equal opportunities for all; men fight for women, and women for men; rich fight for the poor, and poor for the rich, the country will remain politically inert, socially backward, and economically stagnant without any rule of law and equity. I believe political apathy is the mother of all evils in Bangladesh. There's hardly anything in life beyond politics. We're all related to each other in power perspective.

TAJ HASHMI

"Political Violence, 'Rational Ignorance', And 'Political Illiteracy' In Bangladesh", Counter Currents, February 29, 2016


The current apathy is a recipe for more apathy.

AMY DREIBELBIS FAIRWEATHER

"Chuck Sweeny: Rebranding Freeport for future growth", Freeport Journal Standard, February 28, 2016


Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

ANTON CHEKHOV

letter to A.S. Suvorin, Dec. 27, 1889

Tags: Anton Chekhov


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

CYRIL CONNOLLY

The Unquiet Grave

Tags: Cyril Connolly


Apathy is our enemy. We want to make sure that everybody knows that every vote is important.

DEBBIE GUDENAS

"Hillary Clinton wins SC Democratic primary Saturday", WSOC TV, February 28, 2016


In sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

HUME

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: wisdom, happiness


I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.

LIONEL SHRIVER

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Tags: freedom


Mental apathy is stoicism, a calmness of mind incapable of being ruffled by pleasure, pain, or passion.

N. WEBSTER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Apathy borders upon folly.

PUBLIUS SYRUS

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Publilius Syrus


Our political apathy is the only reason a candidate so brash and callous could make headlines day after day. Grown adults smirked and shook their heads as young people turned to comedy for their news, as if the degradation of democracy by our parents' complacency was not the primary reason for our distrust of the media. These are the same young people who, in turn, reduced political discourse to memes and clickbait, making an instant celebrity of any public figure capable of eliciting the sort of shock needed to garner attention in a 24/7 media orgy of reality TV and journalistic sensationalism.

RAGHAV SHARMA

"The Donald we deserve", America Blog, March 10, 2016


I am not a victim. I am alive, wide awake and free from the numbness of apathy.

ROKELLE LERNER

Daily Affirmations

Tags: Rokelle Lerner


Apathy is merely a learned behavior, a habit that can be changed.

SUSANNA BARBEE

"How to motivate apathetic students", Asheville Citizen-Times, February 29, 2016


Apathy is the greatest withholder of peace.

BETTY WILLIAMS

"Apathy is the biggest challenge to peace, says Nobel Peace Laureate Betty Williams", XPress Dubai, December 16, 2015


Presumably, apathy is the greatest danger to truly representative political systems; without the vote, with blind choice, or with one choice, the representative character of democracy is lost.

HERBERT I. LONDON

Social Science Theory: Structure and Application

Tags: democracy, voting


Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy.

JOSEPH CONRAD

Heart of Darkness

Tags: Joseph Conrad, grief


Thoughtlessness or apathy is the only obstacle to success.

CHARLES TURNER THACKRAH

The Effects of Arts, Trades, and Professions

Tags: success


It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

RICHARD YATES

Revolutionary Road

Tags: mediocrity


Ask a politician a blunt question, and chances are you'll never quite get a real answer. Say the truth loud and clear, and you'll probably become a pariah of sorts.... You see, our country is battling an intellectual illness termed political correctness; a social and political trend that Wilbur Smith deems "the worst form of censorship" because "you're not allowed to speak your mind...." It's a dangerous mask for apathy, a validation for the corruption and immorality in this upside down world. All in all, it hinders our growth as a nation and impedes the very foundations on which this country was built: freedom of speech, justice, and progressive change.

SHALVA GOZLAND

"Political Incorrectness", Huffington Post, February 19, 2016


No, it's a sign of the democracy that's anemic. It's a sign that people just know the system is rigged. It's a sign that they know big money dictates and shapes the destiny of the government and the society. Unfortunately, the dominant response is one of staying away rather than trying to participate and reshape it. So we can understand, in a certain sense, the apathy, but the apathy is in no way justified. We've got to participate, not just in the ballot box, but, as Sister Melina says, we've got to hit the streets. We've got--we have to have organizing and mobilizing and have to be willing to go to jail. And some of us, actually, have to be willing to die.

CORNEL WEST

"Bernie, Hillary or Revolution in the Streets? Cornel West, Dolores Huerta & Black Lives Matter Debate", Democracy Now, March 9, 2016