Apathy

QUOTES

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
 Elbert Hubbard
 The Motto Book, 1907

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits,from a contempt bred of self-satisfaction.
 William Osler
 1902

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
 AlbertEinstein
 1933

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn. (Spoken by Rhett Butler in the movie, slightly varied from the text in
 Margaret Mitchell
 Gone with the Wind, 1936

Never complain and never explain.
 Benjamin Disraeli
 1870

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or tooo complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.
 John Dos Passos
  1936

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
 Vaclav Havel
 

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.
 Benjamin Franklin
 1734

See Also Compassion

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