Indifference Quotes

586 quotes by 445 authors

Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood. — Susan Abulhawa
Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and… — Primo Levi
Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities. — Oscar Wilde
Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time,… — Peter Kreeft
To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference! — Emile M. Cioran
Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference.… — Matt Haig
Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state:… — David Rakoff
Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet… — Roger Scruton
Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous… — Robert Andrews Millikan
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him. — Cesare Pavese
I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love. — August Strindberg
If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding,… — Elisabeth Elliot
I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love, or the fear… — Barry Long
The tragedy of love is indifference. — W. Somerset Maugham
The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with indifference upon the… — Pope John XXIII
Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land,… — Ida Tarbell
Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even without… — Oliver Goldsmith
Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it — William Hazlitt
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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