APATHY QUOTES III
quotations about apathy
Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy.
JOSEPH CONRAD
Heart of Darkness
I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.
LIONEL SHRIVER
We Need to Talk About Kevin
In sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.
HUME
attributed, Day's Collacon
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWIN
If Beale Street Could Talk
Presumably, apathy is the greatest danger to truly representative political systems; without the vote, with blind choice, or with one choice, the representative character of democracy is lost.
HERBERT I. LONDON
Social Science Theory: Structure and Application
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
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
Apathy is a dangerous habit, and history is its greatest testimony.
SHALVA GOZLAND
"Political Incorrectness", Huffington Post, February 19, 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
Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
The Unquiet Grave
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
Thoughtlessness or apathy is the only obstacle to success.
CHARLES TURNER THACKRAH
The Effects of Arts, Trades, and Professions
Apathy borders upon folly.
PUBLIUS SYRUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Apathy is a risk-aversion strategy.
JOOST VAN LOON
Risk and Technological Culture
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
Apathy is our enemy. We want to make sure that everybody knows that every vote is important.
DEBBIE GUDENAS
"Hillary Clinton wins SC Democratic primary Saturday", WSOC TV, February 28, 2016
Mental apathy is stoicism, a calmness of mind incapable of being ruffled by pleasure, pain, or passion.
N. WEBSTER
attributed, Day's Collacon
It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.
RICHARD YATES
Revolutionary Road
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