Quotes About Indifference

No wonder man was always out to conquer Nature, Anna thought. He can't bear it that she doesn't love him, or even hate him. She simply doesn't give a damn.

Anna remembered her fifth grade teacher, Mr. White, telling her that hatred wasn't the worst of emotions. If one hated, one still cared. Indifference was the most inhuman.

The quality of denial—when disciplined—protects man from receiving impressions that are not in harmony with his nature. He adopts an attitude of total indifference to all suggestions that are foreign to that which he desires to express. Disciplined denial is not a fight or struggle but total indifference.

The best denial is total indifference. Things wither and die through indifference. They are kept alive through attention. You do not deny a thing by saying it does not exist. Rather you put feeling into it by recognizing it, and what you recognize as true, is true to you, be it good, bad or indifferent.

If you want to change yourself, become indifferent to things you cannot change – other peoples' opinions and events clearly outside of your control – and focus inwardly. How you treat other people is no different than how you treat your own thoughts.

Cuando esta cualidad de negación es disciplinada, protege a la persona de recibir impresiones que no están en armonía con su naturaleza. Adopta una actitud de total indiferencia ante todas las sugerencias que son ajenas a lo que desea expresar. La negación disciplinada no es una lucha o un combate, sino una indiferencia total.

Indifference is the knife that severs. Feeling is the tie that binds.

Isn't that the greatest gift in the world-just not to care?

Isn't that the greatest gift in the world - just not to care? I feel so grateful for it.

supongamos que fue crucificado supongamos incluso que se levantó de la tumba —todo eso me tiene sin cuidado—

Robert Kennedy spoke shortly before his death about the damage to a society caused by "the breaking of a man's spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men," by "indifference and inaction and slow decay" and by "a slow destruction of children." Kennedy added that "only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our souls.

Imagine the outcry if the Pakistani or Indian governments were burning women alive at those rates. Yet when the government is not directly involved people shrug.

They hadn't been exactly bad at it, either. There had been worse parents around, parents whose kids ended up killing themselves, parents whose kids died of overdoses or ended up in prison. Her own parents had been very cold,

It's not always easy to keep going when faced with indifference or to watch values being defined by a mass infatuation with mediocrity.

Feeling nothing is worse than feeling anything else. I

He saw the guiding light in his life as a palpable indifference. A supreme, a superb, a spectacular indifference. Ronny shrugged. "If you ate less you might feel better about things. The way I see it, the less you eat, the less energy you have to expend on unnecessary stuff. If you were hungry you probably wouldn't be the slightest bit interested in what I did or didn't do.

After a while I decided he was calculating camera angles and placement, studying pedestrian traffic patterns, gauging penetration zones, and it became obvious that he didn't see people at all, that I could smile and wave at him every time he looked my way and he wouldn't notice me. I would be just another data point, part of a flow pattern, a consumer unit.

Indifference was her cloak and shield.

The music, when it came, with a rish, a gush of voice seeking its note, ripped away her indifference and tore through her as sudden and shocking as snowmelt.

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

The taste of the masses is characterized not by their antipathy to the excellent, but by the passivity with which they enjoy equally the good, the mediocre, and the bad. The masses do not have bad taste. They simply do not have taste.

Sociological categories authorize us to move about in society without paying attention to each man's irreplaceable individuality. Sociology is the ideology of our indifference toward our neighbor.

In tijden van volledige vrijheid neemt onverschilligheid voor de waarheid zo'n hoge vlucht, dat niemand de moeite neemt om een waarheid te bevestigen of weerleggen.

La violencia no basta para destruir una civilización. Cada civilización muere de la indiferencia ante los valores peculiares que la fundan.