Inspirational Sayings

Sayings About Apathy

Reflective inspirational sayings about apathy give us an opportunity to review and digest the meaning of apathy and what authors from various eras thought. Apathy, to some, is more a deadly sin than action of any kind. To be aware that apathy can involve us all especially when we are satisfied with our own existence is also to be selfish and guilty.
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It may well be that our means are fairly limited
and our possibilities restricted when it comes to
applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing?
Despair is nor an answer. Neither is resignation.
Resignation only leads to indifference,
which is not merely a sin but a punishment.
Elie Wiesel

That only a few, under any circumstances,
protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs,
does not disprove the fact of the oppressions,
while the satisfaction of the many,
if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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.
Arthur Gordon

It is common sense to take a method and try it.
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins,
such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects,
that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness,
which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance,
it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
Thomas Carlyle


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