Indifference Quotations

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

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.

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

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

With so many contradictory renditions of the biblical text, the public has lost confidence that we can actually know what the Bible says. It is an easy step from this skepticism to an indifference about what the Bible says.

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

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

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

Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.

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

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

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

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.

This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference,

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

No matter how interminable something feels, there is always, always an ending. Sometimes that's good, and sometimes it's bad; sometimes it's a matter of indifference, and sometimes it's heartbreaking, and your life is never the same thereafter.

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

For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.

In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in indifference.

Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.

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

All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

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

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals’ increasing indifference to it,

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.

Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference.

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.

Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.

Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the remarkable indifference they show toward the people who live in it.

No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference.

Indifference looks like detachment, but it is not; indifference is simply no interest. Detachment is not absence of interest - detachment is absolute interest, tremendous interest, but still with the capacity of non-clinging. Enjoy the moment while it is there and when the moment starts disappearing, as everything is bound to disappear, let it go. That is detachment.

She commands who is blest with indifference.

Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.

The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.

Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century

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.

Would you rather die, or be unwound? Now he finally knows the answer. Maybe this is what he wanted. Maybe it's why he stood there and taunted Roland. Because he'd rather be killed with a furious hand than dismembered with cool indifference.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

There are two things that a playwright can have. Success or failure. I imagine there are dangers in both. Certainly the danger of being faced with indifference or hostility is discouraging, and it may be that success - acceptance if it's too quick, too lightning-quick - can turn the heads of some people.

Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.

When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.

Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.

True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.

Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.

But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference.

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.

Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time.

Applaud us when we prevail, correct us when we fail; but, above all, do not let this indispensable, irreplaceable institution wither, languish or perish as a result of Member States' indifference, inattention or financial starvation.

The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key.

He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.

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

Poise and indifference so often look the same.

Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.