Quotes of Indifference - somelinesforyou

“ Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath often left me mourning. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile. ”

- Elie Wiesel

“ The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. ”

- J. K. Rowling

“ After the first blush of sin comes its indifference. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way. ”

- Hedy Lamarr

“ No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. ”

- George Eliot

“ Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. ”

- Iris Murdoch

“ The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. ”

- Norman Cousins

“ The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced. ”

- Agnes Repplier

“ There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. ”

- Juan Montalvo

“ Tolerance is only another name for indifference. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. ”

- George Eliot

“ We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference. ”

- Margaret Chase Smith

“ Tolerance is another word for indifference. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run. ”

- Bliss Carman

“ Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact. ”

- Emil Cioran

“ Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference. ”

- Sydney J. Harris

“ Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ I told him, 'Son, what is it with you: Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.' (on a former player). ”

- Frank Layden

“ A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. ”

- Gian Vincenzo Gravina

“ You have to have a lot more dedication to what I'll call 'the machine,'... I have 20 percent dedication. What's needed is 110 percent. You can't have it with the level of apathy I have. ”

- Janeane Garofalo

“ The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. ”

- William Lloyd Garrison

“ 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. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Work keeps at bay, three great evils — boredom, vice and need. ”

- Unknown

“ In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire. ”

- Charles Francis Adams
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