Indifference Quotes

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
Tolerance is only another name for indifference. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you. View quote
Iggy Pop
Politeness is organized indifference. View quote
Paul Valéry
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
Everything is pathology, except for indifference. View quote
Emil Cioran
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. View quote
Iris Murdoch
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. View quote
George Eliot
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. View quote
Elie Wiesel
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. View quote
Iris Murdoch
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. (Tom Stoppard)
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun. View quote
Samuel Richardson
The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference. View quote
Ian Kershaw
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. View quote
Albert Camus
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference. View quote
Anatole France
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Desire is half of life indifference is half of death. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal. View quote
William Hazlitt
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. View quote
George Eliot
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. View quote
Karel Čapek
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. (Jack Kerouac)
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. View quote
Edmund Burke
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. View quote
Elie Wiesel
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. View quote
J. K. Rowling
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation. View quote
Václav Havel