Quotes about Apathy

Rather than be less car'd not to be at all.

Apathy is passionless living. It is sitting in front of the television night after night and living your life from one moment of entertainment to the next. It is the inability to be shocked into action by the steady-state lostness and suffering of the world. It is the emptiness that comes from thinking of godliness as the avoidance of doing bad things instead of the aggressive pursuit of doing good things.

There is a world of difference between the silence of apathy and the silence of passion!

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, 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.

The fear and apathy which had for so long cast a shadow on the life of the Negro community were gradually fading before a new spirit of courage and self respect. ... The longings and aspirations of nearly 50,000 people, tired people who had come to see that it is ultimately more honorable to walk the streets in dignity than to ride the buses in humilation.

You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

You want everything so much and when you get it it's over and you don't give a damn.

You did not have to like it because you understood it. He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care

Why do these civilizations all seem to follow the same identifiable sequence—from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, and finally from dependence back into bondage?

Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.

Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom.