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

Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it. -- George Carlin

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. -- Thomas Carlyle

Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let things take their course without troubling over details. Such indifference is the root of all evil. -- I Ching

Indifference creates an artificial peace. -- Mason Cooley

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience. -- Mason Cooley

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. -- Crystal Eastman

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. -- Albert Einstein

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. -- William Feather

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. -- William Lloyd Garrison

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom. -- Johann von Goethe

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. -- Horace Greeley

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life but that it bothers him less and less. -- Vaclav Havel

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert M. Hutchins

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Maynard Hutchins

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. -- Aldous Huxley

People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others. -- Robert Jensen

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. -- Helen Keller

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference! -- Jack Kerouac

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. -- Juan Montalvo

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction. -- William Osler

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension. -- John Dos Passos

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. -- Plato

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. -- Plato

In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix’d: ’t is fix’d as in a frost; Contracted all, retiring to the breast; But strength of mind is exercise, not rest. -- Alexander Pope

A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I dont know and I dont care. -- Richard Pratt

That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand. -- Bodie Thoene

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