APATHY QUOTES II
quotations about apathy
Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
Homeward Bound; Or, The Chase
Unless Bangladeshis shun political apathy, doctors fight for journalists and truck drivers; engineers defend garment factory workers' rights; professionals fight for equal opportunities for all; men fight for women, and women for men; rich fight for the poor, and poor for the rich, the country will remain politically inert, socially backward, and economically stagnant without any rule of law and equity. I believe political apathy is the mother of all evils in Bangladesh. There's hardly anything in life beyond politics. We're all related to each other in power perspective.
TAJ HASHMI
"Political Violence, 'Rational Ignorance', And 'Political Illiteracy' In Bangladesh", Counter Currents, February 29, 2016
Apathy is merely a learned behavior, a habit that can be changed.
SUSANNA BARBEE
"How to motivate apathetic students", Asheville Citizen-Times, February 29, 2016
Apathy is a dangerous habit, and history is its greatest testimony.
SHALVA GOZLAND
"Political Incorrectness", Huffington Post, February 19, 2016
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal, and to hasten the resurrection of the dead.
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON
The Liberator, Jan. 1, 1831
In sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.
HUME
attributed, Day's Collacon
In my better moments, I think of apathy as purpose's sleep. In my worse moments, when I'm trying to fix it or get rid of it, I call it feeling lazy, depressed, or useless.
DAWNA MARKOVA
I Will Not Die an Unlived Life
Beneath our communal apathy is the burbling outrage of students, parents and teachers, all searching for someone to blame. In our frustration we pass responsibility onto one another and are surprised when nothing changes.
BRENDAN FREEMAN
"Franklin County graduation rates are a symptom", Tallahassee Democrat, March 5, 2016
The current apathy is a recipe for more apathy.
AMY DREIBELBIS FAIRWEATHER
"Chuck Sweeny: Rebranding Freeport for future growth", Freeport Journal Standard, February 28, 2016
Our political apathy is the only reason a candidate so brash and callous could make headlines day after day. Grown adults smirked and shook their heads as young people turned to comedy for their news, as if the degradation of democracy by our parents' complacency was not the primary reason for our distrust of the media. These are the same young people who, in turn, reduced political discourse to memes and clickbait, making an instant celebrity of any public figure capable of eliciting the sort of shock needed to garner attention in a 24/7 media orgy of reality TV and journalistic sensationalism.
RAGHAV SHARMA
"The Donald we deserve", America Blog, March 10, 2016
Mental apathy is stoicism, a calmness of mind incapable of being ruffled by pleasure, pain, or passion.
N. WEBSTER
attributed, Day's Collacon
No, it's a sign of the democracy that's anemic. It's a sign that people just know the system is rigged. It's a sign that they know big money dictates and shapes the destiny of the government and the society. Unfortunately, the dominant response is one of staying away rather than trying to participate and reshape it. So we can understand, in a certain sense, the apathy, but the apathy is in no way justified. We've got to participate, not just in the ballot box, but, as Sister Melina says, we've got to hit the streets. We've got--we have to have organizing and mobilizing and have to be willing to go to jail. And some of us, actually, have to be willing to die.
CORNEL WEST
"Bernie, Hillary or Revolution in the Streets? Cornel West, Dolores Huerta & Black Lives Matter Debate", Democracy Now, March 9, 2016
It's enthusiasm, not apathy, that makes the world go 'round.
TONY ALESSANDRA
Charisma
I am not a victim. I am alive, wide awake and free from the numbness of apathy.
ROKELLE LERNER
Daily Affirmations
Voter apathy is a problem nationwide. I think people are largely disengaged because they feel like they can't make a difference, and they feel skeptical about politics.
J. J. HOLLIE
interview, "The Woodlands Area Chamber of Commerce president", Community Impact Newspaper, March 9, 2016
Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
The Unquiet Grave
No one seems to care about apathy. There's a lack of interest, probably because it doesn't seem important. The general consensus is it's nothing to get emotional about. Let's face it, people are apathetic about apathy.
BOB PARASILITI
"Games show that sometimes we still care", Mail Media, February 21, 2016
Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy.
JOSEPH CONRAD
Heart of Darkness
Apathy is the outgrowth of their inability to change the world.
GEORGE DAVID MILLER & CONRAD P. PRITSCHER
On Education and Values: In Praise of Pariahs and Nomads
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 A.S. Suvorin, Dec. 27, 1889