Indifferent Quotes

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. (George Bernard Shaw)
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent. View quote
George Steiner
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. View quote
Erich Fromm
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols --it is all that they ask the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. View quote
William Hazlitt
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent. View quote
Francis Picabia
Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help The notice which you have been pleased to take care of my labors, had it been early, had been kind but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it till I am solitary, and cannot impart it till I am known, and do not want it. (Samuel Johnson)
Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature mutilated, overexploited is not able to recover and we refuse to admit it. From North to South, it suffers from ill-development, and we are indifferent. Earth and humanity are in great peril and we are accountable. View quote
Jacques Chirac
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. View quote
Virginia Woolf
You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville. View quote
Frank Sinatra
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household. View quote
Wilhelm von Humboldt
It is not just power, but impotence, that corrupts people. It gives them the mind and soul of slaves. It makes them indifferent, lazy, cynical, irresponsible, and, above all, stupid. View quote
John Holt
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people. View quote
Peter Marshall
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. View quote
José Martí
Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least of all who is indifferent about all. (Johann Kaspar Lavater)
It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again. View quote
Parmenides
That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say. View quote
Paulo Coelho
What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design. View quote
John Herschel