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

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than…

— Elie Wiesel

We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry,…

— Gabrielle Giffords

Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to…

— Baron d'Holbach

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

— Susan Ertz

Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that…

— Marcus Aurelius

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

— Joan Didion

What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and…

— Robin Williams

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

— Anonymous

If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in…

— Charles Lindbergh

“I wasn't sure which I appreciated less—the insincere concern or the genuine indifference.”

— Arthur Graham

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…

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Crystal Eastman

“Courage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for…

— Gabriel García Márquez

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…

— Erwin W. Lutzer

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

— Nicolas Gomez Davila