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Quotes About Indifference

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
~ F. H. Bradley
How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
~ B. C. Forbes
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
~ Berthold Auerbach
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
~ Bram Stoker
You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a difference!
~ Cab Calloway
A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men.
~ David Hume
There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.
~ Edmund Burke
In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.
~ George Crabbe
most of all, a majority of humans refuse to accept that the universe, the world, god(s), are utterly indifferent to our plight.
~ Teofilo F. Ruiz
I don't care one straw.
~ Terence
No one cares to contact this random ass dude!
~ The Blonde Jon
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
~ Theodor Adorno
Rüya, ÅŸakalar?n?n kalitesi hakk?nda tasalanmaz. İyi espriler yapmak derdinde deÄŸildir; çünkü zaten herhangi bir ÅŸey yapmak istememektedir. Rüya yönelimsizdir; çünkü kendisi yönelimdir; bu nedenle rüyalar?n isabetli ya da isabetsiz olmas? söz konusu deÄŸildir.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God—the soul and the speech which communicates it.' People became hypocritical, cunning, mistrustful, cynical, silent, cruel, and indifferent to the fate of others as a result of the destruction of their own souls.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
Such bureaucrats can neither be hurried in their deliberations nor made to see common sense. Indeed, the very absurdity or pedantry of these deliberations is for them the guarantee of their own fair-mindedness, impartiality, and disinterest. To treat all people with equal contempt and indifference is the bureaucrat's idea of equity.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
To treat all people with equal contempt and indifference is the bureaucrat's idea of equity.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
The complacent disregard by the latter of the social catastrophe wrought in the former appalls me almost as much as the catastrophe itself.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
Next time a rattlesnake bites you, or you crack a rib, or find some whore with a sliced-up arm, don't call me. Call somebody who doesn't care." ~0~
~ Theresa Weir
I don't understand it," he said. "We would welcome them if they came. And they must know we are here. You can't miss the big white columns out front." "Perhaps," I said with trepidation, "your church might go into the community instead of expecting them to come to you." "Nah," he said with a hint of indignation. "They're not interested in us. If this church dies, it will be because of the community.
~ Thom S. Rainer
He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
~ Thomas a Kempis
news of all this reached [John], but he said that he did not care about the child, since he still had the anvils and the hammers to forge even finer ones'.
~ Thomas Asbridge
Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett