Politeness is organized indifference.
Paul Valery

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Albert Camus

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

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

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

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Robert M. Hutchins

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

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

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

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

The most destructive criticism is indifference.
Edgar Watson Howe

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.
Joseph Wambaugh

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

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
Elie Wiesel

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Blaise Pascal

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Richard Dawkins

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Charles Caleb Colton

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

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.
Frederick Soddy

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.
Karl Philipp Moritz