Indifference Quotes - Page 25

• We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Country, Children

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• We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Together, Looks, Emotion

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.229, Harvard University Press

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• There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.

  Albert Camus

  Hurt, Emptiness, Terrible

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• In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Forgiving, Injury, Magnanimity

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales”, p.238, tredition

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• I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.

  Mark Twain

  Mean, Giving, Frozen

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• For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is a slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.

  Robert Kennedy

  Children, Book, School

  Robert F. Kennedy's Speech On the Mindless Menace of Violence at the City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, www.jfklibrary.org. April 5, 1968.

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• If we knew how much He loves us, we should be always ready to receive equally and with indifference from His hand the sweet and the bitter; all would please that came from Him.

  Brother Lawrence

  Sweet, Hands, Bitter

  Brother Lawrence (2015). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.38, Booklassic

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• I don't know how you feel, my brethren and sisters, but I'd rather be dead than to lose my liberty. I have no fear we'll ever lose it because of invasion from the outside. But I do have fear that it may slip away from us because of our own indifference, our own negligence, as citizens of this land. And so I plead with you this morning that you take an active interest in matters pertaining to the future of this country.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Morning, Land

  Ezra Taft Benson (1960). “So shall ye reap: selected addresses”

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• If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such a universe would be neither evil nor good in intention ... The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Evil, Design

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• The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him for all our actions, founded upon moral freedom and accountability; a future state of rewards and punishments; the cultivation of all the personal, social, and benevolent virtues-these these never can be a matter of indifference in any well-ordered community. It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how any civilized society can exist without them.

  Joseph Story

  Responsibility, Punishment, Community

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.699

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• The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn

  Carlos Ghosn

  Business, People, Giving

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• If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.

  Vaclav Havel

  Sad, Sympathy, Real

  Open letter to Dr. Gustáv Husák, Communist President, April 8, 1975.

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• Even the wisest people learn little from their successes; God warns His people against allowing their victories (which He will grant) to lead them into pride and spiritual indifference. Instead, they should pay close attention to God's Word.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Pride, People

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• Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Fear, Alive

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.39, Penguin

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• Don't repackage your fear and try to sell it to me as indifference.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Trying, Sells

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• Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Names, Tolerance, Atheism

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.34, Random House

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• I'd rather people love me or hate me than have no opinion of me. Indifference is scary.

  Lady Gaga

  Hate, People, Scary

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• The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key.

  Russell Sherman

  Prayer, Keys, Fingertips

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• If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Ignorance, Class

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery.

  Stephen Crane

  Wisdom, Children, Wall

  Stephen Crane (2015). “Men, Women, and Boats”, p.181, The Floating Press

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• ...their callous indifference to the plight of children streaming across the border, fleeing horrific circumstances in their own country. Republicans are simply strangled by extremism. There is no more establishment, or middle or moderate wing. You've got the Steve King wing of the Republican Party today, who raised the specter of impeachment this weekend.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Country, Kings, Children

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• Our inspired Constitution is wisely designed to protect from excesses of political power, but it can do little to protect us from the excesses of appetite or from individual indifference to great principles or institutions. Any significant unraveling of the moral fiber of the American people, therefore, finally imperils the Constitution.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Moral Fiber, People, Political

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• ...our cities of the present lack the outstanding symbol of national community which, we must therefore not be surprised to find, sees no symbol of itself in the cities. The inevitable result is a desolation whose practical effect is the total indifference of the big-city dweller to the destiny of his city.

  Adolf Hitler

  Destiny, Cities, Community

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There should be perfect freedom, legal and social, to do the action and stand the consequences. It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference, which pretends that human beings have no business with each other's conduct in life, and that they should not concern themselves about the well-doing or well-being of one another, unless their own interest is involved.

  John Stuart Mill

  Selfish, Doctrine, Would Be

  "Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin".

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• The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral.

  John Bertram Phillips

  Attitude, Facts, Refusal

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