Indifference Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Freedom, Patriotic, Democracies Have

  Great Books of the Western World vol. 1, ch. 10 (1952)

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• The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

  Plato

  Plato, Freedom, Men

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• Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

  Elie Wiesel

  Death, Attitude, Dies

  US News & World Report, October 27, 1986.

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• Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Enemy, Benefits

  The Perils of Indifference, delivered 12 April 1999, Washington, D.C.

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• Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

  Helen Keller

  Relationship, Self Esteem, Science

  My Religion (1927) ch. 6

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• Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

  Gioachino Rossini

  Silence, Answers, Argument

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• Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  Forgiveness, Lasts, Impossible

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• There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Philosophy, Three, Literature

  "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

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• There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.

  Machado de Assis

  World

  Machado de Assis (1952). “Epitaph of a Small Winner”

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

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Choices, Engagement, Conflict

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• Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Desire, Half

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• Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.

  Carrie P. Meek

  Character, Responsibility, Community

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• Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go to church and talk about him and that sort of thing. They may even go out and evangelize and try to win converts. But in their hearts, if they are honest with themselves, they are indifferent to him because they cannot see him. God is too abstract for people. God is a word without meaning. If Jesus came back today, nothing he said would make any sense to those who wait for him. They would be the first ones to kill him again.

  Christopher Pike

  Jesus, Hate, Heart

  Christopher Pike (1994). “Black Blood”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

  Robert Menzies

  Things In Life, Good Things, Lost

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• Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

  Elie Wiesel

  Life, Power, Evil

  US News & World Report, October 27, 1986.

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• Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Forgiving

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• The opposite of love is indifference to the genuine needs of others.

  Max Anders

  Love Is, Opposites, Needs

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• For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Heart, Firsts

  L'Etranger (The Stranger) pt. 2, ch. 5 (1942)

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• Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Pathology

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Anorexia, Eating Disorder, Apathy

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you’re feeling massive Resistance, the good news is, it means there’s tremendous love there too. If you didn’t love the project that is terrifying you, you wouldn’t feel anything. The opposite of love isn’t hate; it’s indifference.

  Steven Pressfield

  Hate, Mean, Love Is

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.42, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

  Elie Wiesel

  Opposites, I Hate My Life, Apathy

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• 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

  Teaching, Angel, Men

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• The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Opposites, I Hate My Life, Apathy

  US News & World Report, en.wikiquote.org. October 27, 1986.

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• She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.

  Thomas Hardy

  Passion, Hands, And Love

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1685, Delphi Classics

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