Quotes About Indifference

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.

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Han behøver ikke være bange for indbrud og overfald. Døren er forsvarligt låset. Om den er låset udefra eller indefra kan for så vidt være ligegyldigt.

Henry Villard took sarcastic note of the sudden "adornment of whiskers" on November 19. "His old friends, who have been used to a great indifference as to the 'outer man,' on his part," the journalist punned, "say that 'Abe is putting on airs.

Then, as now, white America was largely indifferent to even the most shocking crimes, as long as they were restricted to the black community.

The benevolent gentleman is sorry; but, then, the thing happens every day! One sees girls and mothers crying at these sales, always! it can't be helped, etc.; and he walks off, with his acquisition, in another direction.

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one's feeling, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still must we eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again,—still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions,—pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.

Still, national politics meant little to him: about as much as paper airplanes would mean to the survivor of a plane crash.

Everybody wants something at the expense of everybody else and nobody thinks much of the other fellow.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Indifference and independence are the two wings which enable the soul to fly.

BE RIGHT OR WRONG, don't be indifferent, don't be NOTHING.

Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all.

The opposite of love is not hate, I believe. It's simply no longer caring.

As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don't have to give a rat's ass about.

el peligro del «amable robot», una criatura nacida en la sociedad de masas con la ilusión de la libertad, pero incapaz de influir en nada en las grandes estructuras del poder. «Entre la escasa conciencia del hombre y los temas de nuestro tiempo, parece existir un velo de indiferencia. Su voluntad parece anestesiada; su vitalidad, encogida».

When I flew over the Atlas Mountains in a plane, I realized that their formation-through erosion, geological dramas, the action of winds-was completely independent of our moral anxieties; man is in a kind of cyclone; he builds solid houses to protect and shelter his heart. Outside, nature is nothing but indifference, even terror.

Have not women preferred hatred to indifference, and the reputation of witchcraft, with all its penalties, to absolute insignificance?

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

You must be all a-tingle with excitement.' 'I guess so,' I said, but I did not feel a-tingle. I did not feel a-anything.

There are people in the world who care about automobiles, and there are people who couldn't care less, and then there are the people who are impressed by the Dilemma, and those people are everyone.

We didn't care what happened to anything. I'd never done something like that and, even under the circumstances, it was a little fun. I understood bullies better. I understood why you'd want to push things around without caring if you caused any damage.

Why do these people love you, Archer? Is it simply because you show little or no response to their affection?