Quotes on Indifference

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.

But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

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.

There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

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.

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is one reason we must receive Christ, for apart from His Spirit we can never be freed from the chains of selfishness, jealousy, and indifference. Will others see Christ's love in your life today?

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.

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.