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Quotes About Indifference

The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.
~ Thomas McGuane
In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.
~ David Hume
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
~ Jack Kerouac
I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the curtain going up.
~ Noel Coward
Friendship, mercy, gladness, and indifference, being thought of in regard to subjects, happy, unhappy, good, and evil respectively, pacify the Chitta. We must have these four sorts of ideas. We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful towards those that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought to be happy; and to the wicked we must be indifferent.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Squeezed uncomfortably into a corner the chaplain looked at him with a malevolence so habitual that it was almost indifference.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
Laura also thought that the law had done a great deal to spoil Henry. It had changed his natural sturdy stupidity into a browbeating indifference to other people's point of view. He seemed to consider himself briefed by his Creator to turn into ridicule the opinions of those who disagreed with him, and to attribute dishonesty, idiocy, or a base motive to every one who supported a better case than he.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
There are no good or evil people. There is only a great, unfathomable mob trampling itself underfoot. The life-giving sources of the old morality have dried up and vanished in the sands of oblivion. There's no other source to draw from, no place to refresh oneself. There is no example, no inspiration. It is night. A night of indifference, apathy, chaos.
~ Tadeusz Konwicki
Za co pan nas tak nie lubi? -Ja wszystkich nie lubi?. Albo, je?li chcesz, wszystkich lubi?. Nawet tych biednych sekretarzy, waszego i naszego, którzy w tej chwili by? mo?e ca?uj? si? bez ochoty w usta.
~ Tadeusz Konwicki
?wiat si? wyrówna?. Nie ma z?ych i dobrych. Jest wielki, nieszcz?sny t?um depcz?cy sobie po nogach. Jest noc. Noc oboj?tno?ci, noc apatii, noc chaosu.
~ Tadeusz Konwicki
Sure, why not?" she said. "You know, you read about a crime in the paper and you think how terrible for the victims, and then you turn the page and move on.
~ Tami Hoag
It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.
~ Tanith Lee
He flicked a bored glance at the computer in her lap
~ Tanya Anne Crosby
Now hardly anything seemed to matter except politics—the latest series of atrocities, which family had converted, who had offered money to bribe the Church, and, of course, the fateful night which was burned in their collective memory and which caused even those who had previously expressed a total indifference to politics to sit up and take stock.
~ Tariq Ali
How can he eat at a time like this?" she asked Tubelight. The operative shrugged. "One time, Boss ate a chicken frankie after watching a hanging
~ Tarquin Hall
The lessons of history were hard to ignore. Every democracy ever known had failed, beginning with the Greeks twenty-four centuries earlier. They had succumbed, one by one, to all the well-known vices of the people: corruption, greed, lust, ethnic hatred, distractibility, or simply a fatal indifference.
~ Ted Widmer
For me, generally speaking, I don't like to make a big deal out of stuff.
~ Adam Cole
I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
~ Sean Penn
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
~ William Safire
I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
~ Werner Herzog
You can get spoilt in this game, you know. You reach the point where you get a new car and don't get excited about it. You get complacent, and that's what you've got to watch for.
~ Phil Taylor
I don't pay attention to him. I don't even ignore him.
~ Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.