Indifference famous quotes
07-17-2025
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For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.
-- Adolphe Thiers -
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.
-- Agnes Repplier -
In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.
-- Al Goldstein -
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
-- Albert Camus -
He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe
-- Albert Camus -
The great enemy of morality is indifference.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.
-- Aldous Huxley -
But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Indifference is the dead weight of history.
-- Antonio Gramsci -
Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?
-- Bernard Beckett -
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
-- Bess Myerson -
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
-- Cesare Pavese -
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
-- Cesare Pavese -
Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst -
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
-- Charlie Chaplin -
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
-- Crystal Eastman -
Your life of indifference to the risen Christ and of halfhearted attention now and then to a few of his commandments will appear on that day as supremely blameworthy and infinitely foolish, and you will . . . weep that you did not change.â€8
-- Daniel L. Akin -
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.
-- Dizzy Gillespie -
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
-- Edmund Burke -
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.
-- Edwin Land -
Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.
-- Edwin Schlossberg -
The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
-- Elie Wiesel -
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
-- Elie Wiesel -
Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
-- Elie Wiesel -
The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference
-- Elie Wiesel -
It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference
-- Elie Wiesel -
To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
-- Emile M. Cioran -
fear cannot exist when one is indifferent to life.
-- Evadne Price -
Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.
-- Frederick Herzberg -
There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.
-- Frederick Soddy -
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.
-- Gertrude Stein -
Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.
-- Guy Davenport -
There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
-- Helen Keller -
A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.
-- Ian Fleming -
The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.
-- Ian Kershaw -
They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.
-- Iggy Pop -
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
-- James A. Baldwin -
The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.
-- James Orbinski -
I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
-- Jean Racine -
Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.
-- Jeff Greenfield -
And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.
-- John Banville -
Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.
-- John Bowlby -
We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century
-- John Bruton -
There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
-- Juan Montalvo -
All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.
-- Judith Crist -
The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.
-- Jules Michelet -
Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.
-- Karl Friedrich Schinkel -
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.
-- Karl Rahner -
Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at best or outright antipathy at worst.
-- Langdon Brown Gilkey -
Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
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.
-- Leland Ryken -
But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.
-- Lionel Shriver -
When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.
-- Lisel Mueller -
Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
-- Louis Nizer -
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.
-- Louise Glück -
There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.
-- Machado de Assis -
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
-- Marcel Duchamp -
We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.
-- Margaret Chase Smith -
Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut -
For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also a form of death.
-- Mary Butts -
How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!
-- Mary Elizabeth Braddon -
It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.
-- Mary Parker Follett -
people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.
-- Mary Wortley Montagu -
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
-- Marya Mannes -
The most deadly poison of our time is indifference.
-- Maximilian Kolbe -
What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.
-- Meryl Streep -
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.
-- Michael Parenti -
Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals’ increasing indifference to it,
-- Mike Huckabee -
Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.
-- Myrtle Reed -
She commands who is blest with indifference.
-- Nicolas Chamfort -
One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.
-- Oscar Wilde -
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.
-- Peter Kreeft -
Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.
-- Pope Francis -
Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.
-- Pope Francis -
During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference.
-- Pope Francis -
The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.
-- Ray Krone -
More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.
-- Robert Menzies -
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.
-- Sam Snead -
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust
-- Samuel Beckett -
We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence...
-- Shakira -
Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
-- Sophie Swetchine -
nothing makes one so easily a fatalist as indifference.
-- Sylvia Thompson -
Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference.
-- Terry Rossio -
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
-- Tom Stoppard -
Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
-- Umar -
Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.
-- Violet Trefusis -
Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.
-- William Feather -
One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.
-- Dale Jamieson -
Most people in the Middle East at the moment, even if they are totally open-minded about possible peace, nobody does anything. It's an age of indifference in a way. It's like: "OK, terrible things are happening here, terrible things are happening there... forget it. We'll keep on going for our own benefit."
-- Eran Riklis -
Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.
-- Nomy Arpaly -
A person is praiseworthy for a right action to the extent that her action manifests, and is rationalized by, good will, that is, concern for the right and the good, not necessarily under the description "right" or "good". A person is blameworthy for a wrong action to the extent that her action manifests, and is rationalized by, ill will - concern for the wrong and bad, also de re - or moral indifference - lack or deficiency of good will.
-- Nomy Arpaly -
The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key.
-- Russell Sherman -
Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally.
-- Abba Hillel Silver -
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
-- Adlai Stevenson I -
Don't repackage your fear and try to sell it to me as indifference.
-- Ron Currie Jr.
