A Quote by Elie Wiesel

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

Elie Wiesel

Quote Topics

Also Area Because Creativity Despair Enemy Every Evil Human Indifference Only Sterile Than Worse

Quote Author

Elie Wiesel
American - Writer
September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Elie Wiesel

...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.

Elie Wiesel

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.

Elie Wiesel

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

Meryl Streep

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

Max von Sydow

Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

Henry Ward Beecher

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

Richard Whately

The great enemy of morality is indifference.

Albert Schweitzer

Indifference was our greatest enemy.

Judah Smith

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.