Indifference Quote by Tom Stoppard

“James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.”

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Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

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Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

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Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't…

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If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in…

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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

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What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and…

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I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

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Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that…

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