apathy

“I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.”

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, American pedagogue, 1899-1977)

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. (Anwar El Sadat, president of Egypt, 1918-1981)

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

There is so much apathy in the world today . . . but who cares?

Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.

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 future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.

Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than a community which looks upon its perpetration with apathy and unconcern.

The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.