Noun
Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion.
Source: Webster's dictionaryApathy 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
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
The greatest danger to our future is apathy. Jane Goodall
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. Rollo May
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. Conor Cruise O'Brien
They are going up and down the country, stirring up apathy. William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw