Top 815 Indifference Quotes & Sayings

The opposite of life is not death, it's 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.

You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of readymades is always based on visual indifference and, at the same time, on the total absence of good or bad taste.

Indifference is the strongest contempt.

And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.

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.

Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.

I always say now it's the indifference that kills patients in the field and different populations. We have to break our indifference towards the suffering of people elsewhere.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

The great enemy of morality is indifference.

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

Today, this selfish attitude of indifference has taken on global proportions, to the extent that we can speak of a globalization of indifference. It is a problem which we, as Christians, need to confront.

Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.

Indifference is dangerous, whether innocent or not.

She commands who is blest with indifference.

Indifference to love or hate is sitting on the fence between the two, refusing to engage either one of them. Indifference, if it had its own way, would prefer to step away from the whole struggle between love and hate, to walk away from the only real game in the world and wallow in its own mediocrity.

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation fed by a subtle fear of the heart. We pull back, believing that what happens to others is not our concern. Our courage leaves us. Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference

Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

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

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.

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

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.

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

Indifference looks like detachment, but it is not; indifference is simply no interest. Detachment is not absence of interest - detachment is absolute interest, tremendous interest, but still with the capacity of non-clinging. Enjoy the moment while it is there and when the moment starts disappearing, as everything is bound to disappear, let it go. That is detachment.

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on

Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.

Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.

The tragedy of love is indifference.

Indifference is what death is for us as fighters.

Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

Politeness is organized indifference.

There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.

Indifference was our greatest enemy.

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

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

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees...

Indifference breeds animosity.

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

Indifference is a quarantined difference.

There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

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.

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

The most destructive criticism is indifference.

Do not think I do not realise what I am doing. I am making a composition using the following elements: the winter beach; the winter moon; the ocean; the women; the pine trees; the riders; the driftwood; the shells; the shapes of darkness and the shapes of water; and the refuse. These are all inimical to my loneliness because of their indifference to it. Out of these pieces of inimical indifference, I intend to represent the desolate smile of winter which, as you must have gathered, is the smile I wear.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.