Indifference Quotes

My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.

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

Politeness is organized indifference.

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.

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

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.

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

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

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

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

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

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.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

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

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

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

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

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

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

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

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

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

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.