I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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.
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
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.
Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
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.
Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.
Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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.
...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.
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.
What is called “apathy” is, I believe, a feeling of helplessness on the part of the ordinary citizen, a feeling of impotence in the face of enormous power. It’s not that people are apathetic; they do care about what is going on, but don’t know what to do about it, so they do nothing, and appear to be indifferent.
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek - Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong And dare not speak!
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.
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