Ralph Nader Quotes

I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

I wasn't interested in politics. My attitude about it was, I can't make a difference no matter what I do. And the truth is, I don't even care enough to try.

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway.

There's a great feeling of powerlessness in America. When I express ideas to people, they say, 'That's terrific, but do you think it really counts?'

People are hurting, and they feel very disengaged and disenfranchised.

I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

He's gone around the country stirring up apathy.

I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done.

I'm not after anything, I don't want to be part of politics, I don't want to be a part of anything.

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

I think we've unplugged and become very apathetic to a lot of things that are happening. There's so much going on and we're sort of disconnected.

Do I run around deploring the world? No. I'm just not into it. I was brought up that way.

The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.

Really, I could care less if there's a Second Decade record.

Reality doesn't interest me.

I don't care about losses anymore.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

There is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

I never ever paid attention to any election.

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.

I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.