Indifference Quotes

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

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

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

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

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

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

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

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

The most destructive criticism is indifference.

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 opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.

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.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Politeness is organized indifference.

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against 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.