Ralph Nader Quotes

You can't lose a game in which you're not even competing.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

I'm not a political person; I'm not an activist. I'm not a guy with strong beliefs about anything. I have nothing to say to the world.

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

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

Hating someone is giving them too much, just leave them alone.

I don't really think about recognition; I'm not really involved.

I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

The real reason for apathy is usually a feeling of powerlessness.

We don’t have a dog in that fight.

The possibility that I will ever be drawn into political activity is so remote as to be negligible.

Sport doesn't do anything for me. And I don't do anything for it.

I would like to have a right not to have an opinion. I don't want to have to care about everything.

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.

You can't boycott something you never went to anyway,so why put energy into it?

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

As long as it's not me, I'll be cool.

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

It's almost impossible to dislike me, because I do nothing.

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.

At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them

I just don't see anybody that's particularly interested in fixing that.

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

Nothing matters, but it's perhaps more comfortable to keep calm and not interfere with other people.