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These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
-Walter Benjamin
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I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
-Leo Buscaglia
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Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.
-George Carlin
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Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.
-Ralph Chaplin
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Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie
Dust unto dust
The calm, sweet earth that mothers all who die
As all men must;
Mourn not your captive comrades who must dwell
Too strong to strive
Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell,
Buried alive;
But rather mourn the apathetic throng
The cowed and the meek
Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong
And dare not speak!
-Ralph Chaplin
Mourn Not the Dead
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Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.
-John Jay Chapman
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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 his editor and friend, A.S. Suvorin., December 27, 1889
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
-Frederic Chopin
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Indifference creates an artificial peace.
-Mason Cooley
City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection, New York, 1992
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Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.
-Mason Cooley
City Aphorisms, Second Selection, New York, 1985
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
-Abraham Cowley
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Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.
-John Dos Passos
The Prospect Before Us,, 1950
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Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
-Crystal Eastman, "Time and Tide", July 20, 1923
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
-Albert Einstein
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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn
-William Feather
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God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
-Johann von Goethe
source cited: Memoirs, by Riemer
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Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
-Horace Greeley
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life but that it bothers him less and less.
-Vaclav Havel
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Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.
-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-Robert Maynard Hutchins
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
-Aldous Huxley
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Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let things take their course without troubling over details. Such indifference is the root of all evil.
-I Ching
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People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.
-Robert Jensen
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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
-Samuel Johnson
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We 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.
-Helen Keller
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Books about Apathy
