By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."
Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.
Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.
Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.
Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people.
It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
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.
Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.
toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.
Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.
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.
I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.
Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be.
Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.
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 atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.
Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.
Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?
Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives.
HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.
The 2016 presidential campaign is heating up. Can you feel the indifference, the apathy?
Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it.
You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.
Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.
The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong.
Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.
Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.
By refusing to give 16- and 17-year olds the vote, the Conservative Government are risking worsening voter apathy and being on the wrong side of history.
Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy
I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much effort.
In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.
Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.
I always write 'Fight' on the mirrors - that goes way back to the times when you had to fight apathy.
Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.
Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political debate and action, if democracy is to survive.
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.
Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.
Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination.
I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.
Children are harmed more by our apathy than our error.
Drugs, killer roads and apathy of the government, all these issues forced me to join AAP.
Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.
People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.
The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.
Having everybody voting to avoid a £25 fine is no way to solve public apathy.
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.
Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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