Quotes on the topic: Apathy


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Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.


The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing failed, OK. But the only thing we've got to live with is that it failed.


All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.


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


Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.


Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.


As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.


Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.


We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have 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.


I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.


Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.


Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.


People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.


HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.


Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.


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


I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.


Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.


I was faced more with apathy than opposition.