Indifference Quotes

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

The most destructive criticism is indifference.

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.

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.

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.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.