Quotes About Indifference

I told a story earlier from Jonathan Glover about a woman who lived close to a concentration camp and felt empathy for those being tortured. Her response was to ask that the torture be done elsewhere, where it wouldn't disturb her. This was one of a series of examples meant to show how empathy need not make us good.

The Christian takes strength and comfort in the fact that God suffers with us and even enters into our suffering—particularly in the person of Jesus of Nazareth on the shameful, humiliating cross. Indeed, a God who doesn't suffer "would make God a demon." An indifferent God would condemn human beings to indifference as well.

Some are convinced that the universe has no point. The cosmos is indifferent, deaf to our cries and oblivious to our tears. Human beings are nothing more than molecules in motion—biological organisms trying to survive and reproduce but destined to eventual extinction along with all else in the universe. Is that the story we should believe?

La verdad es veleidosa: no hay que buscarla con demasiada pasión, pues, con frecuencia se rinde, más bien a la indiferencia. Se escapa cuando parece que la hemos apresado, pero se entrega si se le espera con paciencia; se manifiesta ella misma después de habernos despedido de ella, pero es inexorable cuando se la ama con excesivo fervor.

asked by his wife whether he wants to have his bowling shoes laced over or laced under, Archie Bunker answers the question: "What's the difference?" Being a reader of sublime simplicity, his wife replies by patiently explaining the difference between lacing over and lacing under, whatever this may be, but provokes only ire. "What's the difference" did not ask for difference but means instead "I don't give a damn what the difference is.

When Larry Kramer tells Mathilde Krim in Interview about the closeted gay man at the National Institutes of Health who buried the AIDS data for two years, that's when I understand how doomed we were before we ever knew. It will be recorded that the dead in the first decade of the calamity died of our indifference.

I don't come from the past, I come from now, here in the cauldron of plague. When the doors to the camps were finally beaten down, the Jews of Europe no longer came from Poland and Holland and France. They came from Auschwitz and Buchenwald. But I will never understand how the straights could have let us die like this - year after year after year, collaborating by indifference - except by sifting through the evidence of my queer journey.

It will be recorded that the dead in the first decade of the calamity died of our indifference.

Sometimes the questions are more important than the answers, especially when you do not know what the answers are. I didn't give a shit either way.

If you're going to get a card for somebody you don't really care about, they should make cards that say that. "You're a friend of my wife's cousin–the hell with you." "We hardly know you. What did you expect, cash?"

Narcissists do not consider the pain they inflict on others; nor do they give any credence to others' perceptions. They simply do not care about thoughts and feelings that conflict with their own. Do not expect them to listen to, validate, understand, or support you. —Les Parker, PhD

Politeness is organized indifference.

it is only when you don't care that you don't desire

J' étais prétentieux, disait l'un de mes professeurs ; farfelu, disaient mes camarades, à l'exception de mon ami Claude Laurent (car j'aimais et aimerai l'amitié et aurai toujours des amis). Il m'a donc fallu apprendre à devenir indifférent à l'opinion d'autrui.

I met the devil,' Ernest said, finishing his glass of wine, 'and he doesn't give a damn about art.

At the age he had attained with his life span short before him he had begun to look upon the human world with the indifference of a condemned man.

At the age he had attained with his life span short before him he had begun to look upon the human world with the indifference of a condemned man. Who cares for your fashions and your wars and your causes? I will shortly be gone and I have seen many fashions come and go and many causes so passionately defended only to be forgotten.

they say, he's mine, and you say, all right, all right, he's yours, of course, take him. Nothing matters to me at all. Not me, not my food, not my bread, not my life, and not him either, nothing matters to me." "I ,Tatiana, fight for nothing

She could hear them giggling when she was already halfway down the block, but she pretended to be deaf; she didn't care. She had calluses from being teased so much.

I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

Ingrid shrugged...like Marie Antoinette hearing about the starving peasants.

Stillman ate without relish.

He sees me through the glass. We both nod like we give a small shit about each other.

Hey where are the old stakes for the beans? Where did we put em? Jasper's ears came up and his mouth opened in his version of a smile. He didn't know. He didn't give a fuck.