Indifference Quotes

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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… — Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. — Edmund Burke
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. — Lord Byron
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. — Albert Camus
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… — Albert Camus
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. — Bliss Carman
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. — Charlie Chaplin
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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier and heavier. — Watchman Nee
The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing… — Norman Angell
We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical… — Nikolai Berdyaev
There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. — Juan Montalvo
Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . . — Gioachino Rossini
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left.… — Charles Lamb
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest… — Mother Teresa
There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the… — Tom Peters
We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we… — Cesar Chavez
...the workers aren't going to stop struggling. They're going to struggle to have a union and they have the right to have it. The police… — Cesar Chavez

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