Quotes About Indifference

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.

If anyone asks, I'll tell them we both just moved on. When people all stare, I'll pretend that I don't hear them talk

She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.

This is a story of several killings, of boys who meant nothing to a world still spinning

cares nothing for others

I don't know why, because it's one of those things I'm not contractually obligated to care about.

I try to avoid asking humans if there's anything wrong with them. (Mostly because I don't care.)

Not that a lot of them had asked for it, or had listened to me. Not that I'm bitter about that, or anything.

I'm a murderbot, I don't give a crap about boats.

But mostly because the news was boring and I didn't care what humans were doing to each other as long as I didn't have to a) stop it or b) clean up after it.

I try to avoid asking humans if there's anything wrong with them. (Mostly because I don't care.)

I hadn't looked at the maps yet and I'd barely looked at the survey package. In my defense, we'd been here twenty-two planetary days and I hadn't had to do anything but stand around watching humans make scans or take samples of dirt, rocks, water, and leaves. The sense of urgency just wasn't there. Also, you may have noticed, I don't care.

I don't know why, because it's one of those things I'm not contractually obligated to care about.

I'll try to be more accurate. I was indifferent, and vaguely annoyed. Do you believe that?

The superstructure above me was triangular, angled back in a way to make it faster or something, I don't know, I'm a murderbot, I don't give a crap about boats.

First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.

She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

The heart wants what it wants or else it does not care.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, comtempt, and general indiference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it - the total passion for the total height - you are unable of anything else.