Quotes About Indifference

Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.

They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn't care

I'm at that stage of life where I don't even care of people like me anymore. If you like me, Cool. If you don't, Okay!

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal ours is apathetic.

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn't just level off—it just gives up, resets itself to zero. Admit it. None of us feel a damn about these people.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!

Dunia ini adalah sebuah tempat yang berbahaya untuk didiami, bukan karena orang-orangnya jahat, tapi karena orang-orangnya tak perduli.

Dunia ini berbahaya untuk dijadikan tempat tinggal. Bukan karena orang yang berbuat jahat, melainkan karena orang yang duduk dan membiarkannya terjadi

I am interested in everything,' interrupted Gumbril Junior. 'Which comes to the same thing,' said his father parenthetically, 'as being interested in nothing.

Familiarity breeds indifference.

That which besets me is indifference. I can't be bothered about people. Or rather, won't. For I avoid, carefully, all occasions for being bothered... Indifference is a form of sloth, and sloth in its turn is one of the symptoms of loveless-ness. One isn't lazy about what one loves. The problem is: how to love?

Indifference is a form of sloth. For one can work hard, as I've always done, and yet wallow in sloth; be industrious about one's job, but scandalously lazy about all that isn't the job. Because, of course, the job is fun. Whereas the non-job---personal relations, in my case---is disagreeable and laborious.

Time and habit had taken the wrongness out of almost all the acts he had once thought sinful. He performed them as unenthusiastically as he would have performed the act of catching the morning train to the city.

La familiaridad engendra la indiferencia.

Ordinary men, we have seen, are not much interested in any political problems which do not immediately affect themselves.

Familiarity breeds indifference. We have seen too much pure, bright color at Woolworth's to find it intrinsically transporting. And here we may note that, by its amazing capacity to give us too much of the best things, modern technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials.

Mortification has to be carried to the pitch of non-attachment or (in the phrase of St. Fran$ois de Sales) 'holy indifference'; otherwise it merely transfers self-will from one channel to another, not merely without decrease in the total volume of that self-will, but sometimes with an actual increase.

This is, perhaps, the most difficult of all mortifications to achieve a 'holy indifference' to the temporal success or failure of the cause to which one has devoted one's best energies. If it triumphs, well and good; and if it meets defeat, that also is well and good, if only in ways that, to a limited and timebound mind, are here and now entirely incomprehensible.