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Quotes about Indifference


It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

James Baldwin

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

James Ouida

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

Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

Gioacchino Rossini

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France

To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of others. . -Eugene Cloutier.

Eugene Cloutier

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

J. August Strindberg

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Haile Selassie

Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea Of grass that waves around thee!

John Clare

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

Agnes Repplier

Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.

Roger Ebert

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference,and undernourishment.

Bob Inglis

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Henry David Thoreau

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

W. Somerset Maugham

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

George Eliot

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