Quotes about Apathy

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.

Familiarity breeds indifference.

There was no attack on religion because people were generally indifferent to religion. They were neither hot nor cold. They were the tepid, the materialistic, who hoped that by Sunday churchgoing they would be taking care of the afterlife, if there were an afterlife. Meanwhile they would get everything they could in this.

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

He was in an eddy again, a deep, lethargic gulf, without desire to work or write, love or dissipate.

Well, there I was, 'way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care.