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

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
Horace Greeley

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

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

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

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

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

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.
Adrian Cronauer

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
William Bernbach

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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