Apathy Quotes

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

Things will happen that you can’t prevent, things will fall apart that you can’t hold together, but ultimately you’re shaping yourself and that final product speaks volumes about who you really are, not what people see you as or what you want to be.

Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy.

...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.

If we aggressively pursue truth, if we are willing to sacrifice, if we look for wisdom from those on the periphery, we have the potential to shock the world from its apathy.

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")

You can present the material, but you can't make me care.

In bitter manuscript remarks on other men's notions about solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight.

If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.

Congratulations.
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What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

I concluded that the best thing for me and for those around me was to want nothing, to be enthusiastic about nothing, to be as unmotivated as possible, in fact, so that I would never again hurt anyone.

Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.