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Indifference Quotes

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

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

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. Rowling

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

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

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
Elie Wiesel

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

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
William Hazlitt

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
George Eliot

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
Roger Waters

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund Burke

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
Andre Maurois

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Andre Maurois

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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