Indifference Quotes

586 quotes by 445 authors

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society. — Edwin Land
It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important. — James A. Baldwin
Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference. — Walter Scott
These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest; much less to… — Simon Greenleaf
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… — Carrie P. Meek
Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts. — Mary Boykin Chesnut
Everything is pathology, except for indifference. — Emile M. Cioran
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… — Karl Philipp Moritz
There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment. — Frederick Soddy
And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference. — George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
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. — Karel Capek
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
We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings. — Bill Moyers
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… — Brian Ferneyhough
In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold… — Evelyn Underhill
He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human. — Saadi
The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference. — Epictetus
RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem. — Ambrose Bierce
INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things. — Ambrose Bierce
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential… — Jean-Paul Sartre

Who Wrote These Indifference Quotes

445 authors contributed a total of 586 Indifference Quotes, led by these top contributors: