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• Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the way of material possessions. On the other hand, people who work hard and struggle and suffer much are the victims of greed and indifference, losers. This insane reversal of values presses heavily on the Black community. The causes originate from outside and are imposed by a system that ruthlessly seeks its own rewards, no matter what the cost in wrecked human lives.

  Huey Newton

  Good Life, Struggle, Hard Work

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• Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.

  Matt Haig

  Art, Hate, Advice

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• Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

  David Rakoff

  Hate, Book, Love Is

  David Rakoff (2013). “Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel”, p.94, Doubleday

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• Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Abuse, Awakening

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.144, A&C Black

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• Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge out your eyes. Carve out your heart. And what will you get from Him? Only silence. Indifference. But merely stand looking at the playbills, sighing because your name is not on them, and the devil himself appears at your elbow full of sympathy and suggestions. And that's why I did it....Because God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Grief, Heart, Eye

  Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.245, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Applaud us when we prevail, correct us when we fail; but, above all, do not let this indispensable, irreplaceable institution wither, languish or perish as a result of Member States' indifference, inattention or financial starvation.

  Kofi Annan

  Inattention, Financial, Failing

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's God except indifference, nor loved deeply without fear that it would cost me dearly in pain. At the age of five I had become a skeptic and began to sense that any happiness that came my way might be the prelude to some grim cosmic joke.

  Russell Baker

  Pain, Father, Real

  Russell Baker (1984). “Growing up”, Signet

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• And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

  Elie Wiesel

  Action, Danger, Insidious

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.143, Macmillan

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• Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Love, Break Up, Hate

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• Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Blood, Broken, Promise

  Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.179, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so often. Over the ensuing years that person we thought understood us best ends up regarding us with pity, indifference, or active dislike. Those who truly care can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive our worst sins. Rarely do we find someone capable of both.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Years, Two, Forgiving

  Jonathan Carroll (2006). “Glass Soup”, p.58, Macmillan

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• Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions. We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment's rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.

  Ida Tarbell

  Sports, Peace, War

  Ida Minerva Tarbell (1916). “New Ideals in Business, an Account of Their Practice and Their Effects Upon Men and Profits”

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• Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Smile, Profound, Shining

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.34, Verso

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• I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference.

  Sergio Leone

  Men, Interesting, Sublime

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• The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.

  Alan Bennett

  Reading, Book, Literature

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• Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea.

  Primo Levi

  Country, Roots, Air

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• I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love, or the fear of it, or the lack of it. Why? Why is love so universally and inevitably heart-breaking, whether it be through the end of a love affair, the death of a loved one or being locked in with the habitual casualness or grim indifference of a partner? The answer is because we've been taught and conditioned by the world to believe that love is a feeling.

  Barry Long

  Life, Believe, Teaching

  "Love is not a feeling". "What is Enlightenment", Volume 4, Number 2, 1995.

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• Would you rather die, or be unwound? Now he finally knows the answer. Maybe this is what he wanted. Maybe it's why he stood there and taunted Roland. Because he'd rather be killed with a furious hand than dismembered with cool indifference.

  Neal Shusterman

  Hands, Answers, Wanted

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster.
  There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Business, Mistake

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.

  Roger Scruton

  Beauty, Voice, People

  Roger Scruton (2011). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.11, Oxford University Press

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• Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Education, Wise, Opportunity

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• There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

  Cesare Pavese

  Forgiveness, Stupidity, Forgiving

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.214, Transaction Publishers

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Tolerance, Aversion, Chains

  Samuel Beckett (2011). “Murphy”, p.157, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To that you were called.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Women, History, Abuse

  Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk”, p.189, Gospel Light Publications

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• I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Answers, Matter

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