Quotes: Apathy, Indifference(Who Cares?)apathy
1. Lack of interest or concern, especially regarding matters of general importance or appeal; indifference.
2. Freedom from, or insensibility to, suffering; hence, freedom from or insensibility to passion or feeling; passionless existence. From 1847, Lewes Historical Philosophy, “Apathy was considered by the Stoics as the highest condition of Humanity.” 3. Indolence of mind, indifference to what is calculated to move the feelings, or to excite interest or action.indifference
1. Lack of interest or concern.
2. Unimportant; of little or no concern. QuotationsScience 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.The death of a democracy is not likely to be an assassination by ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference and undernourishment. Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity. Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. We live by encouragement and die without it—slowly, sadly, angrily.
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