Indifference And Apathy Quotes

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  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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  US News & World Report, October 27, 1986.

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  The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.

  Gary Zukav

  Love, Fear, Hate

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Feb 25, 2015

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

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Freedom, Patriotic, Democracies Have

  Great Books of the Western World vol. 1, ch. 10 (1952)

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• The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

  Plato

  Plato, Freedom, Men

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• Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

  J. K. Rowling

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Husband

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• Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Truth, Anger, Empathy

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• 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

  Peace, Soulmate, Honesty

  The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 2

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• Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

  Helen Keller

  Relationship, Self Esteem, Science

  My Religion (1927) ch. 6

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• Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

  Elie Wiesel

  Death, Attitude, Indifference

  US News & World Report, October 27, 1986.

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• Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Ignorance, Empathy, Apathy

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• 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

  Life, Running, Men

  Bliss Carman (1904). “The Friendship of Art”, Boston : L.C. Page

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• Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

  Mason Cooley

  Apathy, Indifference, Excellent

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• By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.

  William Osler

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.369, Duke University Press

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• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Empathy, Faults

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• The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Opposites, I Hate My Life, Apathy

  US News & World Report, en.wikiquote.org. October 27, 1986.

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• There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

  Juan Montalvo

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Justice

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• Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

  Anton Chekhov

  Art, Miscarriage, Grumbling

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, December 27, 1889.

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• The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

  C. S. Lewis

  Hate, Love Is, Anime

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• The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Anorexia, Eating Disorder, Apathy

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Love, Hate, Anime

  Quoted in U.S. News and World Report, 27 Oct. 1986

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• The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

  Elie Wiesel

  Opposites, I Hate My Life, Apathy

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• Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

  Arthur Ernest Morgan

  Greatness, Men, Tragedy

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• The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Wisdom, Democracy, Apathy

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• Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

  Rollo May

  Friendship, Depression, Hate

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  People, Empathy, Apathy

  William Lloyd Garrison (1852). “Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...”, p.63

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