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.
Max von Sydow

Time, Evil, Create

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
Emile M. Cioran

Everything, Except, Pathology

The most destructive criticism is indifference.
E. W. Howe

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Dag Hammarskjold

Others, Dignity, Genuine

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
Clare Boothe Luce

Nothing, Harder, Softness

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

Love, Satisfied, Begun

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
Bess Myerson

Corruption, Crime, Accomplice

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch

Passion, Confused, Moral

Politeness is organized indifference.
Paul Valery

Politeness, Organized

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.
Tim Holden

Society, Powerful, Racism

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
Iris Murdoch

Life, Human, Another

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
Andrea Dworkin

Human, Reality, Suffering

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
Sydney J. Harris

Cannot, Secret, Curiosity

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
Norman Cousins

Great, Compassion, Means

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Between, Honor, State

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
Mary Chesnut

Love, Impossible, While

Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.
Malcolm Turnbull

Marriage, Honest, Few

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

Nothing, Matter, Concerns

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.
Lord Robertson

Between, Again, Choice

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.
Mike Huckabee

Great, Respect, Become

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

Fight, Nothing, Everybody

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.
Robert Frank

Life, Love, Cannot

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.
Al Goldstein

Reality, Universe, Cause

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.
Brian Ferneyhough

Another, Idea, Since

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.
Rowan D. Williams

Age, Problems, Culture

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.
Karel Capek

Order, Hear, Necessary

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
A. J. Liebling

Good, Money, Food

The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.
Frances O'Grady

Greatest, Important, Last

As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.
Jerry Costello

Work, History, Future

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.
Bliss Carman

Life, Long, May

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