Indifference Quotes

"Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run."
-Bliss Carman

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
-Plato

"At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference."
-Soren Kierkegaard

"The most destructive criticism is indifference."
-Edgar Watson Howe

"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."
-J. K. Rowling

"Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference."
-Bill Clinton

"The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues."
-Robert Maynard Hutchins

"There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference."
-Clare Boothe Luce

"The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference."
-Bess Myerson

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

"Indifference, then, is not only a sin, it is a punishment."
-Elie Wiesel

"Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference."
-Stephen Evans

"Crumbling under an administration blinded by ideology and a callous indifference to the realities of the world around it."
-Phyllis Oakley

"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others."
-Dag Hammarskjold

"Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference to the unique values which created it."
-Nicolas Gomez Davila

"It's a cause for concern in terms of indifference or risk-taking."
-Fred Trueman

"Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right."
-Crystal Eastman

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

"Sir, I view the proposal to hold an international exhibition at San Francisco with an equanimity bordering on indifference."
-William S. Gilbert

"Even if the act was not a knowing act it was done under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life."
-Donald Coffey

"It would indicate complete indifference to the laws relating to speed."
-Peter Evans

"And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never its victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten."
-Elie Wiesel

"I don't know what depraved indifference is if it's not shown in that video tape."
-Ben Crump

"What is depressing is the failure to act, the indifference, and the negligence of the federal government for everything that touches our seaway."
-Michel Gauthier

"If you hate change, you're going to hate indifference even more."
-Jim Hettinger

"The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference."
-Mal Pancoast

"Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six!"
-George Colman, The Younger

"Was caused by her chilling indifference."
-Paul Wallace