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• We must cast away everything which hinders us upon our road towards heaven – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and the pride of life; the love of riches, pleasures and honors, the spirit of lukewarmness and carelessness and indifference about the things of God – all must be rooted out and forsaken if we are anxious for the prize. We must mortify the deeds of the body, we must crucify our affections for this world.

  J. C. Ryle

  Eye, Pride, Heaven

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• Alas! is even love too weak
  To unlock the heart, and let it speak?
  Are even lovers powerless to reveal
  To one another what indeed they feel?
  I knew the mass of men conceal'd
  Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd
  They would by other men be met
  With blank indifference, or with blame reproved;
  I knew they lived and moved
  Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest
  Of men, and alien to themselves - and yet
  The same heart beats in every human breast!

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Heart, Men

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.167, Delphi Classics

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• The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing either upon the public's indifference, confusions, prejudices, pugnacities or fears. And the only way in which the power of the interests can be undermined and their maneuvers defeated is by bringing home to the public the danger of its indifference, the absurdity of its prejudices, or the hollowness of its fears; by showing that it is indifferent to danger where real danger exists; frightened by dangers which are nonexistent.

  Norman Angell

  Real, Hate, Home

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• For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Matter, Absurd

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.94, Vintage

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• I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.

  Brian Greene

  Religious, Believe, Political

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• What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

  George Orwell

  Intellectual, Liberty, Matter

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• To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to manipulate information to win the support-or the indifference-of the majority towards an action.

  Randal Marlin

  Powerful, Mistake, Winning

  Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.14, Broadview Press

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• Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world.

  Peter Kreeft

  Two, World, Today

  Peter Kreeft (1993). “Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensées Edited, Outlined, and Explained”, p.188, Ignatius Press

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• In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Spiritual, Hate

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.47, Macmillan

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• People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn't begin to describe the ways that people let each other down.

  Esther Perel

  Cheating, Emotional, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Children, Ignorance, Men

  "Giffords Tragedy: What’s the Message to Young Women Considering Public Service?" by Gloria Feldt, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2011.

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• No one can ever heap enough insults upon me to suit my taste. I think we all really thrive on hostility, because it's the most intense kind of massage the ego can undergo. Other people's indifference is the only horror.

  Paul Bowles

  Thinking, People, Ego

  Paul Bowles, Jeffrey Miller (2014). “In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles”, p.192, Macmillan

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• Why this strange indifferences to missions? Why these scant contributions? Why does money fail to be forthcoming when approved men and women are asking to be sent to proclaim the “unsearchable riches of Christ” to the heathen?

  Lottie Moon

  Men, Doe, Asking

  Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.225, Mercer University Press

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• With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Humility, Hands, Example

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1982). “Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature”

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• Samadhi is an experience of such depth, such joy, such indifference and such love, that nothing else is really like it or worthwhile in comparison, yet it gives shape, color and meaning to everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Color, Giving, Joy

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• [The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

  Yann Martel

  Fate, Animal, Past

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice & Virgil”, p.97, Knopf Canada

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• But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference.

  Karl Rahner

  Long, Orthodoxy, Form

  1963 'Natur undGnade' in Fragen derTheologieHeute (translated by DinahWharton as Nature and Grace,1963).

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• Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Ignorance, Cutting, Perfect

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• The act of greatest subversion ... is the one of indifference. A man, or a group, finds it unbearable that someone can be simply uninterested in his, or its, convictions. ... There is a degree of complicity, or mutual respect, between the believer and the man who attacks his beliefs (the revolutionary), for the latter takes them seriously.

  John Carroll

  Men, Groups, Degrees

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.43, Taylor & Francis

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• There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations....What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless the masters who either despise or oppress or combine both? The apathy that exists respecting Ireland is worse than the national antipathy they bear us.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Ignorance, Army, Suffering

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• Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fellow men, but also without fear of it.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Men, Looks, Fellow Man

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 126. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology.

  Mordecai Richler

  Apology, Self, Wheat

  1971 Of Canada. St Urbain's Horseman, ch.1.

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• You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

  Glen Duncan

  Beauty, Thinking, Forgiving

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• I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

  Jean Rhys

  Rain, Sunset, Rivers

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• Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Organization, Literature, Irony

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