Quotes About Indifference

In my room, I looked around at all the pieces of my life, neat and tidy on their little shelves, my clothes and books and telephones, my shoes and hair barrettes, and tried to care about them. Mine, mine, mine. But they were only things, things that could have belonged to anyone.

Fear arises from desire, yet it passes away by itself. Generate fortitude and look at it with indifference.210

The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit.

Too many people in the U.S. support death and destruction without being aware of it. They indirectly support the killing our people without ever having to look at the corpses

It sometimes seems that people in the states are so accustomed to watching death on "Eyewitness News," watching people starve to death in Africa, being tortured to death in Latin America or shot down on Asian streets, that, somehow, for them, people across the ocean—people "up there" or "down there" or "over there"—are not real.

Suddenly I see the comedy of little men, myself included, who are pitted against a riddle that is as vast and indifferent as the blue sky above us. (pg. 170)

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms; no pride; no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.

Many a time, in my political indifference, I was secretly amused to see him swinging between anti-semitism and his passion for nut cake.

Perhaps the difference between us was that he [Adolf Hitler] took things seriously which seemed to me quite unimportant. Yes, this was one of his typical traits; everything aroused his interest and disturbed him – to nothing was he indifferent.

Senor d'Anconia said that you bore him, Mr. Taggart.

I ain't in the state of mind where I give a darn.

I don't know how their ranking goes or anything else, and I tell people I don't really care how the rankings go.

I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.

I don't pay attention to the ratings.

I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.

I try not to think about anybody's reaction to what I do.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Well, my whole thing with gossip is I couldn't care less if it's true.

I never cared what kind of grade I got.

A lot of Hollywood kids went to my grammar school growing up. I'm completely unmoved by it.

I don't care about no boxing legacy. I don't care where they put me on the list of all-time greats - let them put me at the bottom.

For me, it depends only on the script, the part I'm doing, and the people around me. It could be in Greenland or the Sahara. I don't care.

Gary Cohn doesn't care about the estate tax, I can guarantee you. I can guarantee you.

I'm not going to say I'm cool, because I don't really feel that. I just don't care at all, and I guess that's what people think is cool.