Indifference Quotes

Politeness is organized indifference.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

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.

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

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

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

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

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.