A Quote by William Safire

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

William Safire

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Apathy Care Caused Don't Care I Don't Care Ignorance Know Sloppiness Speech

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William Safire
American - Author
December 17, 1929 - September 27, 2009

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

Jimmy Buffett

I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.

Frank Layden

There is within the hearts of people a deep desire for peace on earth, and they would speak for peace if they were not bound by apathy, by ignorance, by fear. It is the job of the peacemakers to inspire them from their apathy, to dispel their ignorance with truth, to allay their fear with faith that God's laws work - and work for good.

Peace Pilgrim

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

Carl Sagan

Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.

Tom Tancredo

Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.

Jimmy Buffett

There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations....What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless the masters who either despise or oppress or combine both? The apathy that exists respecting Ireland is worse than the national antipathy they bear us.

Daniel O'Connell

Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it.

Quinn Norton

Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness.

Rollo May

Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

Tom Hanks

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

Sharon M. Draper

Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.

Kirk Douglas

I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lifted from apathy and ignorance. I write because of a compulsion to make something out of the nothing that is my own life.

F. Sionil Jose

Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives.

George W. Bush

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.