Quotes of Unconcern - somelinesforyou

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

- Edmund Burke

“ Indifference is the essence of inhumanity. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. ”

- Haile Selassie

“ It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was defective and I feel the inconvenience, if not the misfortune of not receiving a classical education. Knowledge is the food of genius, and my son, let no opportunity escape you to treasure up knowledge. ”

- Sam Houston

“ What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. ”

- George Eliot

“ Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to he who does not concern us at all. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ The opposite of love, I have found, is not hate, but indifference. ”

- Elie Weisel

“ Indifference is the invisible giant of the world. ”

- Ouida

“ If thou wouldst be happy… have an indifference for more than what is sufficient. ”

- William Penn

“ Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty. ”

- William Feather

“ Love can only end in indifference. If it ends in hate, it hasn't ended. ”

- Robert Brault

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

- Thomas Merton

“ It is not opposition but indifference which separates men. ”

- Mary Parker Follett

“ The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. (attributed). ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference and apathy are parasitism, perversion, not life. ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion. ”

- Abraham Cowley

“ It would indicate complete indifference to the laws relating to speed. ”

- Peter Evans

“ All politics are based on the indifference of the majority. ”

- James Reston

“ Politeness is organized indifference. ”

- Paul Valery

“ Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. ”

- Charlie Chaplin

“ I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. ”

- Elie Wiesel

“ Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. ”

- Elie Wiesel

“ The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. ”

- Blaise Pascal

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

- Sydney J. Harris

“ The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. ”

- Dante Alighieri

“ Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history. ”

- Len Deighton

“ Life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference and it is important to see what is invisible to others. ”

- Robert Frank

“ It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true in and for itself? ”

- Georg Hegel

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

- Kahlil Gibran
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