Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
Your life of indifference to the risen Christ and of halfhearted attention now and then to a few of his commandments will appear on that day as supremely blameworthy and infinitely foolish, and you will. . . weep that you did not change. ”8
He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.
Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.
A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.
The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing either upon the public's indifference, confusions, prejudices, pugnacities or fears. And the only way in which the power of the interests can be undermined and their maneuvers defeated is by bringing home to the public the danger of its indifference, the absurdity of its prejudices, or the hollowness of its fears; by showing that it is indifferent to danger where real danger exists; frightened by dangers which are nonexistent.
To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.
Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.
Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything.
Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time.
Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.
Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.
I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you. . . Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?
For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.
Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
