Indifference Quotes:

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

- Adolphe Thiers

topic: Government, Firsts, Indifference

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

topic: Views, Doe, Indifference

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

- Al Goldstein

topic: Reality, Causes, Indifference

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

- Albert Camus

topic: Life, World, Indifference, Happy Again

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

- Albert Camus

topic: Heart, Sublime, Indifference

The great enemy of morality is indifference.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Enemy, Morality, Indifference

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

topic: Luxury, Reform, Indifference, Calvinism

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Matter, Indifference, Figures

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

- Antonio Gramsci

source: Antonio Gramsci (1975). “History, Philosophy and Culture in the Young Gramsci”

topic: Weight, Indifference

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

- Bernard Beckett

topic: Indifference, Plague

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

- Bess Myerson

topic: Indifference, Corruption, Crime, Moral Corruption, Accomplices

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

- Cesare Pavese

topic: Perfect, Behaviour, Indifference

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

- Cesare Pavese

topic: Perfect, Indifference, Behavior

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

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

topic: Agents, Benefits, Indifference

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

- Charlie Chaplin

topic: Mind, Despair, Indifference, Lulls, Narcotics

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

source: Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Fighting, Agitation, Indifference, Indifference And Apathy

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.”8

- Daniel L. Akin

source: Daniel L. Akin (2012). “Ten Who Changed the World”, p.5, B&H Publishing Group

topic: Attention, Indifference, Christ

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

- Dizzy Gillespie

topic: Gentleman, Jazz, Indifference, Ladies And Gentlemen

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Indifference

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

topic: Tests, Faces, Indifference, Inventions And Inventors

Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.

- Edwin Schlossberg

topic: Differences, Texture, Indifference

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Opposites, Life Is, Indifference

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Death, Attitude, Indifference, Indifference And Apathy

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

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Soul, Sickness, Indifference

The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Opposites, Indifference, Heresy

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

- Elie Wiesel

topic: People, Hatred, Indifference

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

- Emile M. Cioran

topic: Aliens, Indifference, Claims, Fanatics

fear cannot exist when one is indifferent to life.

- Evadne Price

topic: Fear, Indifference, Indifferent

Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.

- Frederick Herzberg

source: "Punished by Rewards: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes". Book by Alfie Kohn, p. 205, 1999.

topic: Healthy, Indifference, Absurd, Irresponsibility

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

- Frederick Soddy

source: Frederick Soddy (2004). “The Interpretation of Radium and the Structure of the Atom”, p.27, Courier Corporation

topic: Sublime, Indifference, Environment, External Environment, Aloofness

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

topic: Time, Communication, Indifference, Finnish

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

- Guy Davenport

topic: Art, Attention, Indifference

Indifference is the strongest contempt.

- Ha Jin

topic: Indifference, Contempt, Strongest

There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

- Helen Keller

topic: Ignorance, Optimism, Indifference

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

- Ian Fleming

topic: Indifference

The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.

- Ian Kershaw

source: Ian Kershaw (2002). “Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich, Bavaria 1933-1945”, p.277, Oxford University Press

topic: Hate, Indifference, Auschwitz

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

- Iggy Pop

topic: Boredom, Indifference

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Indifference, Blind, Terror

The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.

- James Orbinski

topic: Silence, Indifference, Forget, Inhumanity

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

- Jean Racine

topic: Men, Matter, Indifference

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

- Jeff Greenfield

topic: Water, Office, Indifference

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

- John Banville

topic: World, Indifference

Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.

- John Bowlby

source: John Bowlby (1946). “Forty-four Juvenile Thieves: Their Characters and Home-life : [With Bibl.].”

topic: Despair, Misery, Indifference, Callousness

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

- John Bruton

topic: Europe, Holocaust, Indifference

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

- Juan Montalvo

topic: Justice, Indifference, Harder, Indifference And Apathy, Softness

Indifference was our greatest enemy.

- Judah Smith

topic: Enemy, Indifference

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

- Judith Crist

topic: Love You, Memorable, Indifference, Pleasantries

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

- Jules Michelet

topic: Men, Indifference, Tyranny

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

- Karl Friedrich Schinkel

source: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, Vol. 11, p. 94; also in "The Dictionary of Art", Vol. 28 (1996) by Jane Turner, 1976.

topic: Art, Indifference, Barbarism

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

source: 1963 'Natur undGnade' in Fragen derTheologieHeute (translated by DinahWharton as Nature and Grace,1963).

topic: Long, Orthodoxy, Indifference

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

source: Langdon Gilkey, Langdon Brown Gilkey (1985). “Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock”, p.11, University of Virginia Press

topic: Church, Indifference, Rebellion, Against Religion

Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.

- Laurell K. Hamilton

topic: Fear, Alive, Indifference

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

source: "Leland Ryken Interview: Differences in Bible Translations". Christian Publishing House Interview, christianpublishinghouse.co.

topic: Biblical, Steps, Indifference, Lost Confidence

But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.

- Lionel Shriver

topic: Weapons, Indifference

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

- Lisel Mueller

topic: Writing, Indifference, Writing Poems

Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

- Louis Nizer

topic: Reality, Differences, Indifference

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

topic: Able, Indifference, Hunger

There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.

- Machado de Assis

topic: World, Indifference

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

topic: Ideas, Indifference, Ugliness

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

- Margaret Chase Smith

source: Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”

topic: Tolerance, Degenerates, Indifference

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

- Mary Boykin Chesnut

topic: Lasts, Impossible, Indifference

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

topic: Battle, Indifference, Certain

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

- Mary Elizabeth Braddon

topic: Men, World, Indifference

It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.

- Mary Parker Follett

topic: Men, Indifference

people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.

- Mary Wortley Montagu

topic: Writing, People, Indifference

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

- Marya Mannes

topic: Morality, Ethics, Indifference

The most deadly poison of our time is indifference.

- Maximilian Kolbe

topic: Poison, Indifference

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

- Meryl Streep

topic: Tolerance, Brutality, Indifference

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

source: Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.2, City Lights Books

topic: Country, People, Indifference

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

- Myrtle Reed

topic: Hate, Remember, Indifference, Love And Hate

She commands who is blest with indifference.

- Nicolas Chamfort

topic: Indifference

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Self Respect, Indifference, Should

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

- Ouida

topic: World, Giants, Indifference

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

topic: Hate, Opposites, Indifference

Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.

- Pope Francis

topic: May, Indifference, Globalization

Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.

- Pope Francis

topic: Christian, Needs, Indifference, Needy, Those In Need

During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference.

- Pope Francis

topic: Way, Overcoming, Indifference, Lenten

The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.

- Ray Krone

topic: Needs, Death Penalty, Indifference

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

- Robert Menzies

topic: Indifference, Good Things, Lost, Good Things In Life

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

topic: Distance, Golf, Indifference

The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Tolerance, Aversion, Indifference

Indifference breeds animosity.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

topic: Indifference, Animosity

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

- Shakira

topic: Play, Violence, Indifference, Stop Violence Against Women, Against Violence

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

- Sophie Swetchine

topic: Soul, Return, Indifference

nothing makes one so easily a fatalist as indifference.

- Sylvia Thompson

topic: Indifference

Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference.

- Terry Rossio

topic: Noble, Emotion, Indifference

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

- Tom Stoppard

topic: Men, Indifference, Joyce

Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.

- Umar

topic: Inspiring, Indifference, Fortune, Fear Allah

Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.

- Violet Trefusis

topic: Thinking, Indifference, Genuine

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

- William Feather

topic: Pay, Indifference, Penalties, Inactivity

I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.

- Woody Allen

topic: Witty, Humorous, Indifference, Programming Funny, Funny Computer

One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

- Dale Jamieson

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Real, People, Indifference

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

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: People, Age, Indifference

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

topic: Suffering, Moral, Indifference

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

topic: Action, Moral, Indifference

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

- Russell Sherman

topic: Prayer, Keys, Indifference, Libido

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

topic: Loyalty, Tolerance, Indifference

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

- Adlai Stevenson I

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Apathy, Indifference, Servant

Don't repackage your fear and try to sell it to me as indifference.

- Ron Currie Jr.

topic: Trying, Indifference, Sells

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

- Serge Gainsbourg

topic: Wind, Matter, Indifference, Carried Away, Your Absence

Silence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies.

- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

topic: Silence, Allies, Indifference

God is missed through laziness, indifference and unwillingness.

- Jesse Duplantis

topic: Laziness, Indifference

The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral.

- John Bertram Phillips

topic: Attitude, Facts, Indifference

Indifference, lukewarmness, and neutrality are always attached to failure.

- John Landis Mason

topic: Neutrality, Indifference

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.

- Willy Brandt

topic: War, Differences, Indifference

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

- Charles Caleb Colton

topic: Fashion, Admiration, Indifference

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

- Soren Kierkegaard

topic: Lying, Enmity, Indifference

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

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

topic: Opposites, Evil, Indifference

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

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

topic: Evil, Indifference, Silent, Insidious, Affording

She wondered what she thought of herself, and came to the realization that she felt mostly indifference towards her entire life.

- Steig Larsson

topic: Realization, Indifference, Felt

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Perfect, Behaviour, Indifference, Good Behavior

Indifference is a quarantined difference.

- Akiane Kramarik

topic: Differences, Indifference

Politeness is organized indifference.

- Paul Valery

source: "Tel Quel". Book by Paul Valery, 1943.

topic: Indifference, Politeness, Organized

Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.

- Lord Chesterfield

topic: Mother, Wisdom, Indifference

Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.

- Frederick Buechner

source: Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

topic: Indifference, Disguise, Toleration

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

- Albert Camus

source: Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.94, Vintage

topic: Men, Matter, Indifference

Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.

- Albert Camus

source: Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

topic: Sky, Indifference

There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.

- Albert Camus

topic: Hurt, Emptiness, Indifference

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

topic: Able, Indifference, Hunger, Presence Of Love

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

- Christopher Lasch

source: Christopher Lasch (1996). “The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Democracy, Indifference, Intolerance

Poise and indifference so often look the same.

- Sue Grafton

source: Sue Grafton (2010). “J is for Judgement”, p.236, Pan Macmillan

topic: Confidence, Looks, Indifference, Poise

Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.

- Peter Kreeft

topic: Attitude, Indifference

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

- Alexis de Tocqueville

source: Alexis de Tocqueville, Roger Boesche, James Toupin (1986). “Selected Letters on Politics and Society”, p.48, Univ of California Press

topic: Tolerance, Opinion, Indifference

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

- Sydney J. Harris

source: Sydney J. Harris (1964). “ON THE CONTRARY”

topic: Curiosity, Secret, Indifference

The result can be quite new - perhaps a tendency to judge that something we've never conceived of is possible, or to feel sympathy for a trait or a type of person whom we've regarded with indifference or even hostility.

- Philip Kitcher

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Judging, Indifference, Results

Indifference is dangerous, whether innocent or not.

- Pope Francis

topic: Indifference, Innocent, Dangerous

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Essence, Indifference, Inhumanity

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.189, 谷月社

topic: Differences, Indifference, Poet

In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales”, p.238, tredition

topic: Forgiving, Indifference, Injury, Magnanimity

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.105, 谷月社

topic: Indifference, Distinction, Indifferent

This bloody conflict has been going on for much too long. It is doing terrible things to Israelis, to Palestinians. One of the terrible things it is causing is indifference.

- Amos Oz

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Long, Conflict, Indifference

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

- George Eliot

source: George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.814, Delphi Classics

topic: Expression, Literature, Indifference

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

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

topic: Trust, Littles, 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.

- Rajneesh

source: Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

topic: Let It Go, Looks, Indifference

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

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

source: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

topic: Self, Kind, Indifference

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Religion, Indifference, Destroyed

Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that you listen to the horrid tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?

- Thomas Paine

source: Thomas Paine (1852). “The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology”, p.109

topic: Honor, Superstitions, Indifference

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

- Marshall McLuhan

source: Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

topic: Defense, Indifference, Vigilance

Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference.

- Marya Hornbacher

topic: Hatred, Indifference

Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Indifference, Ideology, Hostility

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Apathy, Indifference, Excellent, Indifference And Apathy

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Apathy, Indifference, Artificial

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

- Richard Whately

topic: Evil, Infidelity, Indifference, Depreciation

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.

- Jonathan Edwards

source: Jonathan Edwards, James Macintosh Houston (2004). “Faith Beyond Feelings: Discerning the Heart of True Spirituality”, p.171, David C Cook

topic: Christian, Indifference, Foe, Displeasure, Forsake

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

source: Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.233, Grove Press

topic: Artist, Years, Indifference

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

source: 'The New Arabian Nights' (1882) 'The Rajah's Diamond: Story of the Bandbox'

topic: Luck, Aversion, 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.

- Herbert Marcuse

source: Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.64, Routledge

topic: Culture, Pluralism, Indifference

I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.

- Werner Herzog

source: "Grizzly Man". Documentary, Biography, www.imdb.com. 2005.

topic: Understanding, Indifference, Mercy

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

- Mike Huckabee

source: Mike Huckabee (2015). “God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy”, p.91, St. Martin's Press

topic: Sex, Couple, Indifference

Love may turn to indifference with possession.

- William Hazlitt

source: William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.495

topic: Love, May, Indifference

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

- William Hazlitt

source: William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1468, Delphi Classics

topic: Sympathy, Perfect, Indifference

Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.

- William Hazlitt

source: William Hazlitt (1857). “Lectures on the English comic writers. Lectures on the English poets”, p.14

topic: Facts, Indifference, Wit

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Kegs, Poverty, Indifference, Global Poverty

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

- Saadi

topic: Suffering Of Others, Indifference, Traitor

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

- Isabel Allende

topic: Wind, Justice, Indifference

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Suffering, Indifference, Humans

'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.

- Elie Wiesel

source: Source: dailynorthwestern.com

topic: People, Evil, Indifference

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

- Elie Wiesel

source: Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.143, Macmillan

topic: Action, Indifference, Danger, Insidious

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.

- Elizabeth Bowen

topic: Suffering, Noise, Indifference

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

- Samuel Richardson

source: Samuel Richardson (1751). “Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life”, p.444

topic: Short Love, And Love, Indifference

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.

- Kofi Annan

source: Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

topic: Inattention, Financial, Indifference, Languish

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.

- Neal Shusterman

source: Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

topic: Hands, Answers, Indifference

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

- Emile M. Cioran

source: Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

topic: Indifference, Pathology

The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.

- Epictetus

topic: Use, Matter, Indifference

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

- Lauren Oliver

topic: Hate, Indifference, Delirium

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

- James F. Cooper

topic: Ocean, Novices, Indifference

There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.

- Oliver Goldsmith

source: Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.870

topic: Strength, World, Indifference, Without Friends, Magnanimous

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

- Charlaine Harris

source: Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.85, Penguin

topic: Boredom, Indifference, Contempt

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

- Jane Austen

topic: Belief, Indifference, Objections

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

- Ouida

topic: World, Indifference, Invincible