Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

That is the consolation of a little mind you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

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

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

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

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

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 apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

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.

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

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

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

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.

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

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

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.

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.

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

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!