Indifference Quotations | Page 2

I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.

The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life ...

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

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

Indifference breeds animosity.

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.

Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

Love may turn to indifference with possession.

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.

The great enemy of morality is indifference.

Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

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 hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.

Politeness is organized indifference.

Indifference is dangerous, whether innocent or not.

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

Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.

Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that you listen to the horrid tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?