307 Quotes About Apathy

We may not choose apathy, but when we choose anything other than love and empathetic justice, we get apathy by default.

Apathy is sustainable only as long as injustice doesn't harm us--and we don't care that it's harming others. Apathy lasts only until injustice knocks on our door, and we're forced to look into its eyes.

Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum qtd. in Halter)

At the end of the day--of almost any day, regardless of what we have done or left undone--apathy tells us that it's perfectly acceptable to live with illusions of our own justice.

Voter apathy was, and will remain the greatest threat to democracy.

Though he felt a little guilt over disappearing, it wasn't even guilt, just sadness over not even wanting to call her.

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.

You will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person's life, other than your own.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.