Indifference Quotes

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

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

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

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

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

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.

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.

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

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.