Indifferent Quotes

• Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

  Elie Wiesel

  Giving, Meaning Of Life, Overcoming

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  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

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• If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Attachment

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

  Suzanne Collins

  Tongue, Mask, District 12

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

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• Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

  Whitney M. Young

  Courage, Strong, Giving

  "Character: Whitney Young". "Independent Lens ", TV Series (1999– ). "The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights", www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Education, Economics, Incompetent

  "Infinite Riches: Gems from a Lifetime of Reading" by Leo Calvin Rosten, (p. 165), 1979.

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  The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.

  Gary Zukav

  Love, Fear, Hate

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Feb 25, 2015

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• We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Suffering, Age

  'Sybil' (1845) bk. 6, ch. 13

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• Time heals. No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the pain. Time is neither scalpel nor bandage. It is indifferent. Scar tissue is not a good thing. It is merely the wound's other face.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Pain, Coffins, Tissues

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• Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Husband, Father, Wife

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by Wilhelm von Humboldt. Chapter 3, 1792.

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• We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Yesterday, Today

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.33, Lulu.com

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  However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Light, Darkness, Existentialism

  Interview with Eric Nordern, Playboy, September 1968.

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• The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent

  Stanley Kubrick

  Facts, Hostile, Universe

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• Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Wise, Wisdom, Powerful

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1960). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

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• The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

  C. S. Lewis

  Hate, Love Is, Anime

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• The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, Soulmate, Honesty

  The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 2

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Love, Hate, Anime

  Quoted in U.S. News and World Report, 27 Oct. 1986

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• Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

  Richard Dawkins

  Nature, Learning, Science

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River out of eden: a Darwinian view of life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Strong Women, Philosophical, Enemy

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.65, Penguin UK

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• The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

  Carl Sagan

  Cosmos, Existentialism, Benign

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 250, 1980.

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• Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

  Francis Picabia

  Pain, Indifference, Reason

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• Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Mind, Despair, Indifference

  "Fictional character: Henri Verdoux". "Monsieur Verdoux", www.imdb.com. 1947.

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• So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Blood, Law

  "Complete Works of Mark Twain".

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• A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

  Peter Marshall

  Happiness, Success, People

  Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”

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• Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

  George Steiner

  Men, Apathy, Indifference

  George Steiner (2010). “Language and Silence”, p.225, Faber & Faber

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