Indifference Quotes

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

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.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

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

The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.

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.

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

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.

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

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

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

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

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

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

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

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.

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.

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

The most destructive criticism is indifference.