Cheo Hodari Coker Quotes

I do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in the pool.

I don't pay much attention to sports.

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.'

I don't really give a damn about too much other than myself.

It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.

Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

Ain't nobody gonna care enough to catch you fall.

There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".

The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.

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

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike ...We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward.

I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.

Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.

The goal is a society in which the basic social unit is you and your television set. If the kid next door is hungry, it’s not your problem. If the retired couple next door invested their assets badly and are now starving, that’s not your problem either.

Apathy borders upon folly.

It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.

To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.

I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power.

In the vernacular of my grandfather, 'I does not care.'