Quotes about Apathy

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“I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.”
Apathy
“There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.”
Apathy
“I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!”
Apathy
“The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.”
Apathy
“Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.”
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“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
Verified"Variations on a Philosopher" · evidenceApathy
“The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.”
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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.”
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“You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.”
VerifiedEurope in the Spring, ch. 12 (1940) · evidenceApathy
“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.”
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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.”
Apathy
“Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.”
VerifiedThe Waves (1931) · evidenceApathy
“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.”
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