Quotes About Indifference

If so, how do we feel about it?" "We are numb.

People brush past us on the street in endless waves, leaving somewhere, headed somewhere else, laughing, smoking, speaking into cell phones, completely oblivious to the holocaust of an entire world casually imploding in their midst.

De aquí surge un nuevo hombre: embotado, repleto de cosas, pero vacío interiormente. Va a ir siguiendo la ruta de la ansiedad, que terminará en una forma especial de melancolía e indiferencia.

todo invita al descompromiso.11 La desidia está de moda; está de moda la vida rota, deshilachada, así como los personajes sin mensaje interior.12

Relativismo, escepticismo y finalmente nihilismo tienen un tono devorador, porque de ellos emerge un hombre pesimista, desilusionado, indiferente a la verdad por comodidad, por no profundizar en cuestiones sustanciales. Así surge la idea del consenso como juez último: lo que diga la mayoría es la verdad.

La sexualidad sin amor auténtico conduce a un vacío gradual que desemboca en hastío, indiferencia y escepticismo, es decir, una actitud descomprometida en exceso. A veces, incluso, con espíritu crítico podemos descubrir en su trasfondo notas autodestructivas.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not care.

N.F.F.N.S.N.C. Non Fui; Fui; Non Sum; Non Curo. "I was not, I was, I am not, I care not." It's a Latin saying found on Roman grave markers. It means I wasn't bothered about not existing before I existed and I'm not bothered about not existing now that I don't exist.

Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo

Politics for most people is distant from their everyday lives. They give little attention to it and they don't care about being politically well informed.10

If you are indifferent to a wrong, then you are part of it.

Many Germans, however, were quick to accept the new situation and concerned themselves only with their own private lives and tended not to think about what was happening to the Jews.

It is also evident that many Germans did not want to know about what was being done to the Jews. Either it did not interest them or they wanted to suppress it from their consciousness. All too often, they were too involved in their own lives and worries, and they became blind to the sufferings of the Jews and deceived themselves about their fate.

The two of them stared at the dog behind the wire. Lassie stood, ignoring them as if she were a queen and they were beings so far beneath her that she could not see them.

Cornel West says: "If your success is defined as being well adjusted to injustice and well adapted to indifference, then we don't want successful leaders.

Reality doesn't care about anyone's moods,

The worst your enemy can do is kill you. The worst your enemy can do is betray you. Fear only the indifferent because at their silent consent treachery and death flourish.

Time' can be pitiless. Time is able to convert the flame of love into a mood of restraint. A paradise of adulation can become a setting of animosity and ecstasy can change into indifference. Mutual complicity can become a balance of power and heaven can turn into hell. Eventually only a best friend remains ? ' Me, myself and I' . -Erik Pevernagie

Only a person with convictions has a genuine possibility to be tolerant. He who accepts no absolute values but clings to polite doubt cannot be tolerant but merely indifferent. He is morally defenseless in the face of evil.

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

But time lessens all extremes and reduces them to mediums & unconcern.

I am astonished at my own indifference," he added, "as I never pretended to be brave; it distresses me at times when I am cool and capable of reflection to think how indifferent we become in the hour of battle when our fellow men fall around us by scores…. My God what kind of a people will we be?"27

I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people -- either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent.