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Definition of Apathy

Apathy

Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion.

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Apathy Quotations

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.
Helen Keller

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
Leo Buscaglia

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
Jimmy Buffett

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
Charles de Montesquieu

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
Rollo May

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
William Bernbach

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
William Lloyd Garrison

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Cyril Connolly

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Arnold J. Toynbee

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.
David Geffen

I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.
Alan Rickman

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
Frank Moore Colby

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.
Paul Wellstone

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.
Elliot Richardson

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 M. Hutchins

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

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.
Adrian Cronauer

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

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.
Mike Quade

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
Horace Greeley

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
James Goldsmith

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
Conor Cruise O'Brien

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.
William Whitelaw

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Apathy Translations

apathy in Dutch is apathie, dofheid, lusteloosheid
apathy in French is apathie
apathy in German is Teilnahmlosigkeit, Apathie {f}
apathy in Italian is apatia
apathy in Latin is lethargus
apathy in Swedish is dvala, apati

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