Quotes About Indifference

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me? the State may be given up for lost.

The spectacle of nature, by growing quite familiar to him, becomes at last equally indifferent. It is constantly the same order, constantly the same revolutions; he has not sense enough to feel surprise at the sight of the greatest wonders; and it is not in his mind we must look for that philosophy, which man must have to know how to observe once, what he has every day seen. Jean Jacques Rousseau, On the Inequality among Mankind, Ch. 1, 20.

The former breathes only peace and liberty; he desires only to live and be free from labor; even the ataraxia of the Stoic falls far short of his profound indifference to every other object.

I could hear people around us whispering about the crazy drunk man and his dirty little urchin children, but who cared what they thought?

It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.

Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.

If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.

If no one wants to jump into a Kim Weston and drive it down the street. That's fine with me I don't care. I know my work is good and I know it's serious work.

Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me.

It's quite amazing how obsessed everyone is by 'Strictly Come Dancing.' I don't watch it so I don't know anything about it.

I give celebrity my undivided indifference. Now that it's here, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. And people who complain about celebrity and any kind of privilege are, all of them, whinging morons, and they should keep their first-world problems to themselves. I feel very strongly about that.

I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.

I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

Usually with my opponents, I don't care if they win the lottery or they die.

I don't pick opponents. I don't care about who I'm going to fight.

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today.

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

I literally don't think about Oscar.

I really don't care about the Oscars.

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.

Our readers get what we do, and I don't think about what it's going to look like to the outside world. I don't really care.

If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal? I am so over it.

I want to be liked; I just haven't lost sleep over it.