Indifferent Quotes - page 13
No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death, but oh, thrice guilty is he who, for selfish gratification, heedless of her prayers, indifferent to her fate, drove her to the desperation that impelled her to the crime!
Susan B. Anthony
I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn't understand it then, but now, now I understand it.
Paul Auster
Under the world view possessed by medieval scholars, the path of learning was a path of self-deprecation. ... An opposite conception comes in with Bacon's "knowledge is power.” If the aim of knowledge is domination, it is hardly to be supposed that the possessors of knowledge will be indifferent to their importance. On the contrary, they begin to swell; the seek triumphs in the material world (knowledge being meanwhile necessarily degraded to skills) which inflate their egotism and self-consideration. Such is a brief history of how knowledge passes from a means of spiritual redemption to a basis for intellectual pride.
Richard Weaver
...There's still this notion that you are somehow morally superior if you don't know anything about the background of the writers you read, and I maintain that writers have every right to not talk their backgrounds, that's fine, but when people do and it's important to their work, to not know doesn't mean you're morally superior, it means you are indifferent...
Nalo Hopkinson
It is intolerable that a whole race should be indicted and banned- each individual, good, bad and indifferent, lumped into one category-as the Jews are in Germany. It is intolerable that we should accept the principle that there is a permanent, irreconcilable and even necessary hostility between workers and the men who employ them-as is positively implied in this country, in the National Labor Relations Act.
Dorothy Thompson
I realized that night the import and the terrible difficulty in the task ahead of me-in keeping this child safe from the sharp edges of a strange and indifferent universe.
I think that is was on this alien and storm-tossed night that I first understood what it might be like to be a parent.
Dan Simmons
