Indifference Quotes
Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. - Clare Boothe Luce
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. - George Eliot
Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. - George Eliot
I am myself a man, and nothing relating to men is a matter of indifference to me. - Lord Alfred Tennyson
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun. - Samuel Richardson
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent. - George Steiner
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. - Elie Wiesel
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. - Samuel Johnson
Politeness is organized indifference.-Paul Valery
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.-Albert Camus
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.-Karel Capek
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.-Iris Murdoch
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.-Bess Myerson
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.-Robert M. Hutchins
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.-Thomas B. Macaulay
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.-Tim Holden
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.--Brian Ferneyhough
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.-Norman Cousins
The most destructive criticism is indifference.-Edgar Watson Howe
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.-Joseph Wambaugh
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.-Dag Hammarskjold
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.-Elie Wiesel
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.-Blaise Pascal
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.-Richard Dawkins
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.-Charles Caleb Colton
There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.-Clare Boothe Luce
There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.-Frederick Soddy
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.-Karl Philipp Moritz
In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.-Al Goldstein
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.-Rowan D. Williams
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.-J. K. Rowling
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
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.-Bliss Carman
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.-Elie Wiesel
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.-Tom Stoppard
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.-Henry Ward Beecher
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.-Samuel Richardson
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.-William Hazlitt
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.-Gilbert K. Chesterton
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.-Sydney J. Harris
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.-George Eliot
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.-Roger Waters
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.-Edmund Burke
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.-Andre Maurois
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.-Andre Maurois
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.-Iris Murdoch
Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.-Karl Jaspers