Quotes About Indifference

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Even though Christ Himself would not deliver us from the power of the Totalitarian State, as He did not deliver Himself, we must see His purpose in it all. Maybe his children are being persecuted by the world in order that they might withdraw themselves from the world. Maybe His most violent enemies may be doing His work negatively, for it could be the mission of totalitarianism to preside over the liquidation of a modern world that became indifferent to God and His moral laws.

there has sprung up a disturbing indifference to truth, and a tendency to regard the useful as the true, and the impractical as the false. The man who can make up his mind when proofs are presented to him is looked upon as a bigot, and the man who ignores proofs and the search for truth is looked upon as broadminded and tolerant.

Let no one think he can be totally indifferent to God in this life and suddenly develop a capacity for Him at the moment of death.

One can well believe that a crown of thorns, and that steel nails were less terrible to the flesh of our Savior than our modern indifference which neither scorns nor prays to the Heart of Christ.

la troublante indifférence du coeur humain à l'universalité du malheur; une indifférence qui n'était pas calcul, ni même égoïsme, qui n'était peut-être pas autre chose que l'instinct de conservation, oreilles bouchées, yeux fermés, de survivre dans sa pauvreté quotidienne.

I am a millennial. Destruction is all I know. I no longer care what I wipe from the face of the Earth.

I'm tired of hearing about 'Damages,' I don't care how life-changing 'The Wire' is, and I don't want to hear another word about 'Battlestar Galactica' or its super-awesome ending.

I don't care if someone wants to say something derogatory or spiteful anymore. As I've grown older I've become wiser to the fact that vindictive people take pride in trying to make other people feel bad. I enjoy my life. If someone doesn't like what I do, that's up to them, I really don't care.

To kind of go through life not caring is a spectacular attribute. It's one I wish I had.

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.

I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.

When you kind of don't care, for some reason, that's when things happen.

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

I don't care what anybody thinks.

What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.

The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.

I simply--don't know," Flavius said, and then suddenly explosive: "I don't know and I don't care! Go to bed.

Her expression seemed to keep changing, from grief and fear and dismay to cold indifference. I wondered what caused the changes, or if my mind had conspired with the lights to half imagine them.

Tolerância universal é indiferença. Quem tolera tudo, é porque não se importa com nada'.

Na minha infância nasce uma infância ardente como o álcool. Eu me assentava nos caminhos da noite. Escutava o discurso das estrelas e o da árvore. Agora a indiferença neva a noite na minha alma (Vincent Huidobro, citado por Bachelard)