Quotes about Indifference

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. Votes: 6

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience. Votes: 4

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. Votes: 4

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. Votes: 4

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. Votes: 4

Indifference breeds animosity. Votes: 3

Indifference is a quarantined difference. Votes: 3

Indifference creates an artificial peace. Votes: 3

Indifference is the strongest contempt. Votes: 3

Indifference was our greatest enemy. Votes: 3

Indifference does not make a difference Votes: 3

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity. Votes: 3

Indifference is the dead weight of history. Votes: 3

Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion. Votes: 3

Indifference is dangerous, whether innocent or not. Votes: 3

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world. Votes: 3

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world. Votes: 3

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty. Votes: 3

Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves. Votes: 3

Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder. Votes: 3

Indifference, lukewarmness, and neutrality are always attached to failure. Votes: 3

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism. Votes: 3

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities. Votes: 3

Indifference is the only road that never gets to God. Votes: 3

The enemies inside us: Indifference, Indecision, Doubt, Worry, and Over-caution. Votes: 3

'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people. Votes: 3

Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self. Votes: 3

Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian. Votes: 3

Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is. Votes: 3

Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud. Votes: 3

Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other. Votes: 3

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation. Votes: 3

I'd rather people love me or hate me than have no opinion of me. Indifference is scary. Votes: 3

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. Votes: 3

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood. Votes: 3

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society. Votes: 3

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology. Votes: 3

Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe. Votes: 3

Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake. Votes: 3

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. Votes: 3

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it. Votes: 3

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. Votes: 3

The coolest thing is when you don't care about being cool anymore. Indifference is the greatest aphrodisiac - that's what really sums up style for me. Votes: 3

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power. Votes: 3

Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds. Votes: 3

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike ...We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward. Votes: 3

There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs. Votes: 3

Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We all have to stand for something, or our souls cease to breathe. Votes: 3

The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted...Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin. Votes: 3

Indifference to our neighbor and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience. Votes: 3

Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Tolerance is another word for indifference. Votes: 2

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. Votes: 2

The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference Votes: 2

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. Votes: 2

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts. Votes: 2

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. Votes: 2

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. Votes: 2

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference. Votes: 2

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. Votes: 2

Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations. Votes: 2

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. Votes: 2

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Votes: 2

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. Votes: 2

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. Votes: 2

There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference. Votes: 2

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. Votes: 2

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal. Votes: 2

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment. Votes: 2

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. Votes: 2

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. Votes: 2

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me. Votes: 2

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. Votes: 2

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. Votes: 2

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief. Votes: 2

Our everyday cares, making a living, the crazy rat race of life, often make us forget the value of a good deed. Thus, the goodness that exists within each and every one of us is covered with layer upon layer of indifference and unawareness. In fact, we almost have to be reminded of the fact that goodness is there inside us. Votes: 2

Politeness is organized indifference. Votes: 1

Where there is no difference, there is only indifference. Votes: 1

It is not opposition but indifference which separates men. Votes: 1

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention. Votes: 1

Nothing succeeds like indifference to success. Votes: 0

The most destructive criticism is indifference. Votes: 0

Everything is pathology, except for indifference. Votes: 0

The tragedy of love is indifference. Votes: 0

I prefer Nature's indifference to God's love. Votes: 0

Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference. Votes: 0

Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't. Votes: 0

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference. Votes: 0

Toleration is often just indifference in disguise. Votes: 0

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman Votes: 0

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Votes: 0

Tolerance is only another name for indifference. Votes: 0

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference. Votes: 0

The great enemy of morality is indifference. Votes: 0

Love may turn to indifference with possession. Votes: 0

She commands who is blest with indifference. Votes: 0

Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference. Votes: 0

Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference. Votes: 0

It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference Votes: 0

Silence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies. Votes: 0

God is missed through laziness, indifference and unwillingness. Votes: 0

Poise and indifference so often look the same. Votes: 0

There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference. Votes: 0

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference. Votes: 0

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference. Votes: 0

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference. Votes: 0

Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology. Votes: 0

Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history. Votes: 0

Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference. Votes: 0

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem. Votes: 0

nothing makes one so easily a fatalist as indifference. Votes: 0

The most deadly poison of our time is indifference. Votes: 0

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference. Votes: 0

Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work. Votes: 0

No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference. Votes: 0

The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. Votes: 0

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference. Votes: 0

But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon. Votes: 0

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. Votes: 0

Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death. Votes: 0

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death. Votes: 0

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun. Votes: 0

During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference. Votes: 0

Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets. Votes: 0

Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune. Votes: 0

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. Votes: 0

The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust Votes: 0

A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference. Votes: 0

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it Votes: 0

If I'm dying from anything, it's from indifference and red tape. Votes: 0

There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts. Votes: 0

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind. Votes: 0

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it. Votes: 0

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word. Votes: 0

For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers. Votes: 0

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe Votes: 0

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat. Votes: 0

Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference. Votes: 0

Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference Votes: 0

The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference. Votes: 0

The opposite of love is indifference to the genuine needs of others. Votes: 0

The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting. Votes: 0

The 2016 presidential campaign is heating up. Can you feel the indifference, the apathy? Votes: 0

One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history. Votes: 0

Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair. Votes: 0

The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference. Votes: 0

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect. Votes: 0

This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference. Votes: 0

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference, Votes: 0

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference. Votes: 0

Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world. Votes: 0

The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference. Votes: 0

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference. Votes: 0

Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me. Votes: 0

Don't repackage your fear and try to sell it to me as indifference. Votes: 0

Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal. Votes: 0

The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom. Votes: 0

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference. Votes: 0

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all. Votes: 0

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is inmortal Votes: 0

In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference. Votes: 0

Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient. Votes: 0

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance. Votes: 0

No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference. Votes: 0

In my day, husbands and wives showed each other a suitable level of indifference. Votes: 0

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet Votes: 0

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance. Votes: 0

We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards. Votes: 0

The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn Votes: 0

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women. Votes: 0

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers. Votes: 0

Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing. Votes: 0

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. Votes: 0

Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else? Votes: 0

Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood. Votes: 0

Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference. Votes: 0

This little girl will guard her tower with the most vicious dragon of all: indifference. Votes: 0

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge. Votes: 0

May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference. Votes: 0

Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six! Votes: 0

His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference. Votes: 0

She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference. Votes: 0

Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference? Votes: 0

Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard. Votes: 0

In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate. Votes: 0

Most evangelicals have bought into the need for apparent indifference when writing about massively important things. Votes: 0

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference. Votes: 0

One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference. Votes: 0

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference. Votes: 0

No matter how bleak, there is still chance of love in hatred but none in indifference Votes: 0

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe. Votes: 0

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you. Votes: 0

When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature. Votes: 0

The settled man can cope with love and hate from others, but never with their indifference. Votes: 0

When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard. Votes: 0

The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral. Votes: 0

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility. Votes: 0

I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature. Votes: 0

Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference. Votes: 0

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness. Votes: 0

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself. Votes: 0

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . . Votes: 0

And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference. Votes: 0

Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity. Votes: 0

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. Votes: 0

I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference. Votes: 0

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. Votes: 0

The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love. Votes: 0

The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference. Votes: 0

The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference. Votes: 0

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence. Votes: 0

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve. Votes: 0

All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you. Votes: 0

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. Votes: 0

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference. Votes: 0

For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. Votes: 0

Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything. Votes: 0

If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference. Votes: 0

Embrace all emotions: sadness, happiness, sorrow, hate, love, prejudice, fear; they are weapons against our greatest enemy: indifference. Votes: 0

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right. Votes: 0

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity. Votes: 0

Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference. Votes: 0

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference. Votes: 0

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings. Votes: 0

Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il. Votes: 0

The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key. Votes: 0

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love. Votes: 0

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. Votes: 0

Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off. Votes: 0

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion. Votes: 0

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between. Votes: 0

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. Votes: 0

Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference. Votes: 0

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference. Votes: 0

We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century Votes: 0

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit. Votes: 0

My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference. Votes: 0

She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference. Votes: 0

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference! Votes: 0

Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind. Votes: 0

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state. Votes: 0

One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude. Votes: 0

Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine. Votes: 0

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference. Votes: 0

Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow. Votes: 0

Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters. Votes: 0

Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals' increasing indifference to it, Votes: 0

The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans. Votes: 0

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool. Votes: 0

She wondered what she thought of herself, and came to the realization that she felt mostly indifference towards her entire life. Votes: 0

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others. Votes: 0

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves. Votes: 0

Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth. Votes: 0

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life ... Votes: 0

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference. Votes: 0

It seemed to him that life's true tragedy was to lift up one's voice among the living and be met with indifference. Votes: 0

Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier and heavier. Votes: 0

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference. Votes: 0

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate. Votes: 0

Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character. Votes: 0

Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words. Votes: 0

The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart. Votes: 0

We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence... Votes: 0

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself? Votes: 0

Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky. Votes: 0

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference. Votes: 0

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion. Votes: 0

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference. Votes: 0

It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference about the well-being of others'. Votes: 0

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference. Votes: 0

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference. Votes: 0

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference. Votes: 0

Mme. Deluzy has said that indifference is a woman's guardian angel,--a remark not only applicable in France, but all over the world. Votes: 0

A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference. Votes: 0

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it. Votes: 0

Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deeply sincere. For God doesn't mind your imperfections: He minds your indifference. Votes: 0

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. Votes: 0

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction. Votes: 0

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. Votes: 0

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference. Votes: 0

I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference. Votes: 0

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank. Votes: 0

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. Votes: 0

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important. Votes: 0

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked. Votes: 0

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within. Votes: 0

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result. Votes: 0

But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people. Votes: 0

Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living. Votes: 0

Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion. Votes: 0

A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index. Votes: 0

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues. Votes: 0

Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by. Votes: 0

Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference. Votes: 0

The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil and gas. Votes: 0

We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics. Votes: 0

When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust. Votes: 0

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness. Votes: 0

From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. To what indifference people may come, to what profound conviction of having lost the right track forever. Votes: 0

As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened. Votes: 0

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love. Votes: 0

It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference. Votes: 0

The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams. Votes: 0

Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The biggest sin against the poor and the hungry is perhaps indifference, making believe we do not see, passing by on the other side of the street. Votes: 0

He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings. Votes: 0

I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference. Votes: 0

The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference. Votes: 0

Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't know how to process. Votes: 0

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference. Votes: 0

In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference. Votes: 0

From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference. Votes: 0

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect. Votes: 0

Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me. Votes: 0

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference. Votes: 0

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war. Votes: 0

Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in. Votes: 0

Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies. Votes: 0

It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods. Votes: 0

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world. Votes: 0

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return. Votes: 0

Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact. Votes: 0

It's time for our business and political leaders to help redefine morality beyond sex, drugs, and rock and roll to include lying, hypocrisy, and callous indifference to those in need. Votes: 0

Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal. Votes: 0

Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact. Votes: 0

A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition. Votes: 0

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile. Votes: 0

The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes. Votes: 0

I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole. Votes: 0

It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference. Votes: 0

If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense. Votes: 0

Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge. Votes: 0

I have no particular desire to live. I have no particular desire to be killed. It is a matter of indifference to me. I do not think I am altogether right. Votes: 0

None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy. Votes: 0

Tomorrow is Election Day. It's what they call the midterm elections, and you can cut the indifference with a knife. It's the day Americans leave work early and pretend to vote. Votes: 0

The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference. Votes: 0

Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance. Votes: 0

In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference. Votes: 0

With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples. Votes: 0

My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight. Votes: 0

The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference. Votes: 0

The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget, and worry becomes an impossibility. Votes: 0

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What I know most is that the difference between us is what makes us interesting and attractive and problematic and exciting and vital to each other. Give me difference over indifference any day. Votes: 0

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines. Votes: 0

A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war. Votes: 0

Violent measures are always dangerous, but, when necessary, may then be looked on as wise. They have, however, the advantage of never being matter of indifference; and, when well concerted, must be decisive. Votes: 0

Through prayer, charity and humility before God, people receive a heart which is firm and merciful, attentive and generous, a heart which is not closed, indifferent or prey to the globalization of indifference. Votes: 0

It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage. Votes: 0

Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual. Votes: 0

If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference. Votes: 0

My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination of the leadership to protect the institution, rather than the children. Votes: 0

The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas. Votes: 0

Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again. Votes: 0

Today, this selfish attitude of indifference has taken on global proportions, to the extent that we can speak of a globalization of indifference. It is a problem which we, as Christians, need to confront. Votes: 0

When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme power of corporations, the weakness of government, and the indifference of citizens. Votes: 0

To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of it, and at last the indifference because any one would. Votes: 0

Wal-Mart benefits from the impression that globalization is some kind of unmanageable economic weather system out of the control of everyone, affecting all players with indifference, benefiting those who happened to be properly prepared. Votes: 0

Sadly, the doctrinal ignorance in the pulpits of today is being replicated in the doctrinal ignorance and indifference of the pews, and the people are not even seeing the picture, much less getting it. Votes: 0

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference. Votes: 0

It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear. Votes: 0

She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference. Votes: 0

Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate. Votes: 0

Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi- lust of intentional indifference. Be wet with a decent happiness. Votes: 0

If we knew how much He loves us, we should be always ready to receive equally and with indifference from His hand the sweet and the bitter; all would please that came from Him. Votes: 0

Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love. Votes: 0

Refined indifference is a sports psychology precept: train like there's no tomorrow and then accept whatever happens. Once you step on the field realize that whatever is meant to be is meant to be. Votes: 0

Samadhi is an experience of such depth, such joy, such indifference and such love, that nothing else is really like it or worthwhile in comparison, yet it gives shape, color and meaning to everything. Votes: 0

Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species. Votes: 0

The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money. Votes: 0

For the poor of this world, two major ways of expiring are available: either by the absolute indifference of your fellow-men in peace-time, or by the homicidal passion of these same when war breaks out. Votes: 0

Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fellow men, but also without fear of it. Votes: 0

People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn't begin to describe the ways that people let each other down. Votes: 0

Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat. Votes: 0

The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers. Votes: 0

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People in Parliament occupy themselves with private animosities and petty quarrels, and think little of the national interest. It is impossible to credit the serene indifference with which they consider events outside their own country. Votes: 0

I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference. Votes: 0