Indifference 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 world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

  Albert Einstein

  Evil, Mean People, World

  "Torii Hunter Addresses Police Shooting in Twins HOF Speech". Associated Press, www.usatoday.com. July 16, 2016.

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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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  Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

  Haile Selassie

  Procrastination, Should Have, Voice

  1963 Address to a special session of the UN General Assembly, 4 Oct, making him the first head of state to address both that organization and the League of Nations.

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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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• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Heart, Flames

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• There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

  Juan Montalvo

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Justice

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• A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

  Peter Marshall

  Happiness, Success, People

  Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”

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• There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.

  Machado de Assis

  World

  Machado de Assis (1952). “Epitaph of a Small Winner”

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• All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

  Judith Crist

  Women, Love You, Memorable

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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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• If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bullying, Justice, Sides

  "The secrets of a peacemaker". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

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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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• Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

  Walter Scott

  Differences, Long, Storm

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• To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.

  Dalai Lama

  Giving Up, Goal, Challenges

  Dalai Lama (2012). “Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World”, p.97, Random House

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• The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

  Iris Murdoch

  Life, Relationship, Marriage

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.273, Penguin

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• Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

  Edmund Burke

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.41

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Death, Attitude, Dies

  US News & World Report, October 27, 1986.

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• Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Enemy, Benefits

  The Perils of Indifference, delivered 12 April 1999, Washington, D.C.

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• Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

  George Eliot

  Love, Vanity, Literature

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.107, Open Road Media

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• I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

  Albert Camus

  Life, World, Existentialism

  Albert Camus (2002). “The Stranger”, Spark Notes

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• I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Luck, Aversion, Regard

  'The New Arabian Nights' (1882) 'The Rajah's Diamond: Story of the Bandbox'

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• The most destructive criticism is indifference.

  E. W. Howe

  Envy, Gossip, Criticism

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• Politeness is organized indifference.

  Paul Valery

  Politeness, Organized

  "Tel Quel". Book by Paul Valery, 1943.

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