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Mason Cooley Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.
Mason Cooley Indifference creates an artificial peace.
George Carlin Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.
Crystal Eastman Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
John Dos Passos 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.
Johann von Goethe 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.
Vaclav Havel 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.
Horace Greeley Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
Robert Jensen People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.
Robert Francis Kennedy Laws can embody standards; governments can enforce laws--but the final task is not a task for government. It is a task for each and every one of us. Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted--when we tolerate what we know to b
Juan Montalvo There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
William Osler By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
Richard Pratt A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I dont know and I dont care.
Alexander Pope In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix???d: ???t is fix???d as in a frost; Contracted all, retiring to the breast; But strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
Bodie Thoene Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.
John Dos Passos 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.
Horace Greeley Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
Dr. I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy.
Bodie Thoene Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.
William Safire Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy I don't know and I don't care.
Charles Francis Adams, Sr. In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
Johann von Goethe 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 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.
Michael Masukawa Ignorance, apathy, and lethargy cause the most problems in our world. People don't know what's going on, they don't care, and they're too lazy to find out.
George Carlin Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.
POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. ii., Line 101. In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix'd; 'tis fixed as in a frost.
Frank Moore Colby Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love.
William Osler By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
Alexander Pope In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix???d: ???t is fix???d as in a frost; Contracted all, retiring to the breast; But strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
Hellen 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.
Richard Pratt A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I dont know and I dont care.
Arnold J. Toynbee 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.
Dr. Eric Eustace Williams Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members of Parliament are only representatives of the citizens. They cannot represent apathy and indifference. They can play
I couldn't care less about apathy.
Apathy error: Strike any key. Or none, for that matter.
Apathy Error: Don't Bother Striking Any Key.
Apathy will be the downfall of mankind, But Who Cares?
Apathy isn???t it. We can do something. So flower power didn???t work. So what. We start again.
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
"I am long past innocence and fast approaching apathy." -- Londo
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.
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.
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.
"Apathy is infinitely more annoying than ignorance." D. Bennett
"Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key".
"I am the Goddess of Apathy....Who cares?" - Troi
"Would you say withdrawl in discust is not the same as apathy?"
"It's called apathy, man." -- Tom Servo
"Apathy is not the problem, it's the solution"
"Joe, you have terminal apathy." "Guess what, Bob? I don't care!"

 

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