Indifference Quotes

Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.

One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.

I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

Indifference is a quarantined difference.

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics.

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn

The opposite of love is indifference to the genuine needs of others.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words.

The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart.

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.

We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence.

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

This bloody conflict has been going on for much too long. It is doing terrible things to Israelis, to Palestinians. One of the terrible things it is causing is indifference.

My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.

The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

The great enemy of morality is indifference.