"Politeness is organized indifference." — Paul Valery

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• Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the… — 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… — Albert Camus
• Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of… — 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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow 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… — Norman Angell
• We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God… — Nikolai Berdyaev

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