Indifference Quotes

• If such love obtained in the world today as the Lord intended that it should, love of God and love of fellow men, there would be no wars, contentions, and strife among the children of men. And that there is such, is due to an indifference by men to heed the admonitions and teachings of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

  

  George F. Richards
  • Children
  • Love
  • Jesus

• People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn't begin to describe the ways that people let each other down.

  

  Esther Perel
  • People
  • Different
  • Emotional

• Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Perfect
  • Sympathy
  • Indifference

• She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Circumstances
  • Exist
  • Indifference

• Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Essence
  • Indifference
  • Inhumanity

• One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

  

  Dale Jamieson
  • People
  • Indifference
  • Dangers

• Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Enemy
  • Attitude
  • Immorality

• There's Jay-Z, who morphs a certain street hustler's cool and indifference into CEO extravagance. But for all his prominence, Jay-Z hasn't written a lot of crossover hits.

  

  Michael Paterniti
  • Certain
  • Extravagance
  • Hustler

• Question the images. Take them by the hand and don't let the sweet distancing they offer you vanquish you; do away with the distance's comfort or the soft indifference you derive from concentrating on the quality of the framing, the use of light and shadows, the successful composition. Force these images to bring you to the Mexican Southeast, to history, to the struggle, to this taking sides, to choose a faction.

  

  Subcomandante Marcos
  • Quality
  • Struggle
  • Sweet

• Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally.

  

  Abba Hillel Silver
  • Faith
  • Loyalty
  • Indifference

• The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

  

  Jules Michelet
  • Tyranny
  • Indifference
  • Torment

• God may be a matter of indifference to the evolutionists, and a life beyond may have no charm for them, but the mass of mankind will continue to worship their creator and continue to find comfort in the promise of their Savior that he has gone to prepare a place for them.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Promise
  • Comfort
  • Worship

• I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love, or the fear of it, or the lack of it. Why? Why is love so universally and inevitably heart – breaking, whether it be through the end of a love affair, the death of a loved one or being locked in with the habitual casualness or grim indifference of a partner? The answer is because we've been taught and conditioned by the world to believe that love is a feeling.

  

  Barry Long
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Feeling

• Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that persuasion is far more powerful than coercion when it comes to promoting one's religious views. . . . Not surprisingly, then, large numbers of religious leaders have supported the Supreme Court in its prayer decisions.

  

  William F. Schulz
  • Powerful
  • Decision
  • Religious

• But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Life
  • Figures
  • Indifference

• How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike.

  

  William Rothenstein
  • Today
  • Perfect
  • Beauty

• Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.

  

  Edwin Schlossberg
  • Wonder
  • Isolation
  • Indifference

• Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.

  

  Willy Brandt
  • War
  • Indifference

• Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Wit
  • Indifference
  • Eloquence

• The one reaction Nietzsche cannot tolerate is indifference, and this is what his use of hyperbole is designed to eliminate.

  

  Alexander Nehamas
  • Reaction
  • Indifference
  • Eliminate

• Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?

  

  Jane Austen
  • Belief
  • Indifference
  • Objection

• In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Father
  • Test
  • Relations

• Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Perfect
  • Behavior
  • Treats

• I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Politics
  • Consistency
  • Indifference

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