Thom Yorke Quotes

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

Bad things happen when problems are protected by a force field of tediousness.

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

Too many people get lost in the game of having a good time and being naive about things.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'

People die as you elect new apostles of neglect.

He's gone around the country stirring up apathy.

Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.

Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell us what we're doing, the fact that we continue to do it without taking steps to address it strikes me as, among many other things, irreverent in an extreme.

Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.

One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease.

the most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears!

I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.

Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.