Indifference Quotes

• I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most vicious resistance to blackness that whiteness is able to throw up. I engage in a lot of intellectual combat with supremacists and with the predicate of white supremacy and white indifference to black identity, and brown and red and yellow identity too, for that matter.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Heart
  • Black
  • Identity

• 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

• The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • Boredom

• As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repen t and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference, our hardness of heart. What are we to believe? Jesus thirsts even now, in your heart and in the poor -- He knows your weakness. He wants only your love, wants only the chance to love you.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Jesus

• 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

• Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Poverty
  • Indifference
  • Powder keg

• Indifference is a quarantined difference.

  

  Akiane Kramarik
  • Difference
  • Indifference

• The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Universe
  • Existence
  • Facts

• There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Him
  • Forgive
  • Persecuted

• For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy, it is of no importance whether Plato or Aristotle ever lived. For the mystical practice of an Indian, Persian, Chinese, or Neo-Platonic mystic it is a matter of indifference whether Rama, Buddha, Laotse, or Porphyrius are myths or not. The mystic has no personal relation to them. It is not here a question of somebody telling me the truth which of myself I cannot find, but of my finding an access to the depths of the world in the depths of my soul.

  

  Emil Brunner
  • Soul
  • Philosophy
  • Relation

• The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus men practice mutual deception on each other and fall asleep in wicked indifference.

  

  John Calvin
  • Life
  • Indifference
  • Indulgence

• The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

  

  Ntozake Shange
  • Kindness
  • Slaves
  • Indifference

• Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

  

  Sydney J. Harris
  • Secret
  • Curiosity
  • Indifference

• Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

  

  Karl Friedrich Schinkel
  • Indifference
  • Barbarism

• Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Perfect
  • Born
  • Behaviour

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