The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.
I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much effort.
Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
Apathy's a problem but who cares?
At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.
It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.
There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.
Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be.
Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When you have an immoral society that has blatantly, proudly, violated all of the commandments of God, there is one last virtue they insist upon: tolerance for their immorality.
Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.
Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home. "
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.