Quotes About Indifference

From 1934 to 1948, the motto of the BBC was Quaecunque, Latin for 'Whatever'.

Politics is not really my thing.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

But if America recalls for a moment what Europe has meant to her and still means to her, what Europe, the mother of art and of knowledge, in spite of everything, still is and still will be, will she not reject these counsels of indifference and isolation, and interest herself in what may prove decisive issues for the progress and civilization of all mankind?

Whenever I'm worried about anything," said this guy Ben, "I like to think about China. China has a population of like two billion people, and not one of them even remotely cares about whatever you think is so important." I acknowledged that this was a great comfort. Svetlana

hate was not the opposite of love. Indifference was the opposite of love

This house didn't feel like poverty, just like a house owned by white people who'd stopped caring.

She had spent much of the previous six months hating Mick for what had happened with Brigid—but hate was not the opposite of love. Indifference was the opposite of love, and for the first time, Ayers felt like she could take Mick or leave him. Tonight, she would leave him.

There are two texts: one from Patrick and one from her mother. Patrick: asdhaosihdkqebrkb. (Butt dial? Or incredibly drunk? Ava doesn't care.)

Even if Tellun himself bounded in here with party hats, I'm not sure there would be any reason to celebrate.

She had a vague distaste for death, which was just sufficiently stronger than her apathy to preserve her existence.

More and more life is what we want' Tennyson wrote long ago, and that is the right want. Indifference to life is disease, and therefore not strength. But the life here is only half the apple — a cut out of the apple, I should say, merely meant to suggest the perfect round of fruit — and there is in the world now

A dark-haired young woman in bright sunflower barrettes brushed by Matthew; undressing him with a look that he profoundly ignored, though he wouldn't have if he'd felt the fey iciness that a very particular, very exhausting sort of spell cloaked from both him and Kit.

The Mebd is unimpressed by suffering.

She had long since stopped finding it ironic or eerie that the city at large paid no attention to a murder, whether the victim was a prominent citizen or a guttersnipe.

There are people, even now, who manage to elude rightminding to the point where they enjoy their pleasures more if somebody else suffers to provide them.

The Governors did not care about the mortality of the humor-made laws they enforced. Or their irony either.

It stung that his words didn't mean more to me than they did.

If she'd meant to shame him, it seemed to roll off like water from slate.

As for Thomas, the longer he lived, the less he cared for the world.

There must be perfect towns where shadows were strong like buildings, towns secret without coldness, unaware without indifference.

While I stand and regard it, the indifference to myself shown by a work of art in itself is art.

Everything that comes into Jean's view these days is met with this kind of abject indifference. She feels as thought she has exhausted her life's allotment of emotion, good and bad.

Many waters cannot quench love' was said of divine, not human, love, which the Dean knew was not always tough enough to survive the indifference of misery. That was one of the chief reasons why he struggled to do away with misery.