Indifferent Quotes
467 quotes by 377 authors
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Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites,…
— William James
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Because when you kill 300 people, 400 people, who have nothing to do with the provocations Hezbollah staged, but you do it in effect deliberately…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches…
— John Foxe
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The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not…
— Norman Cousins
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To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough…
— Robert McAfee Brown
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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and…
— Bertrand Russell
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It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.
— James A. Baldwin
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Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies…
— Jimmy Carter
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I spent four indifferent years at Goodison, but they were great years.
— Unknown Author
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What I love most about nature is how indifferent it is to us humans and human suffering. While we are here with our little or…
— Valzhyna Mort
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It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.
— Parmenides
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Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.
— Don Aitkin
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There have been the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last couple of hours.... We can only…
— Tony Blair
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The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent
— Stanley Kubrick
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Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment…
— Frederick Douglass
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I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting…
— Vera Brittain
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It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals…
— Emma Goldman
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Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.
— Jerome Bruner
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The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand,…
— Ernst Junger
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