Apathy

"Indifference, if let alone, will produce obduracy; and obduracy, if let alone, will produce torment."

"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all."

"The more the Jew is a Jew, the more universalist will his views and aspirations be, the less aloof will he be from anything that is noble and good, true and upright, in art or science, in culture or education; the more joyfully will he applaud whenever he sees truth and justice and peace and the ennoblement of man prevail and become dominant in human society."

"In any election, only a percentage of the people vote. Those who cant vote because of age or other disqualifications, and those who dont vote because of confusion, apathy, or disgust at a Tweedledum-Tweedledummer choice can hardly be said to have any voice in the passage of the laws which govern them. Nor can the individuals as yet unborn, who will be ruled by those laws in the future."

"If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes."

"Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees."

"The greatest danger to our future is apathy."

"Most people are indifferent, unless their self-interest is at stake. Then there are the chronic complainers."

"Yes, we all know that curiosity killed the cat, but indifference kills people, both physically and metaphorically, every single day, when it surrenders to despots, aggressors, and villains."

"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."

"There are few signs in a souls state more alarming than that of religious indifference, that is, the spirit of thinking all religions equally true — the real meaning of which is, that all religions are equally false."

"Once you have glimpsed the world as it might be, as it ought to be, as its going to be (however that vision appears to you), it is impossible to live compliant and complacent anymore in the world as it is."