Apathy quotes

Alexander Pope: 

In lazy Apathy let Stoics boast,
Their Virtue fix'd, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

Elie Wiesel: 

It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: 

That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.

Franklin D. Roosevelt: 

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

George Bernard Shaw: 

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

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.

Henri Frederic Amiel: 

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Jimmy Buffett : 

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

Mohandas Gandhi: 

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Plato: 

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Robert M. Hutchins: 

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

Thomas Carlyle: 

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

William Lloyd Garrison: 

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