Indifference Quotes

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it.

None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.

Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier and heavier.

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

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

I'd rather people love me or hate me than have no opinion of me. Indifference is scary.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

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...

Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.

Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world.

Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.

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

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance.

The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.

The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.

The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil and gas.

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference.

The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral.

The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

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 which they are beheld.

Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.

Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.