Indifference Quotes - Page 24

• In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Spiritual, Hate

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.47, Macmillan

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• We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Together, Looks, Emotion

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.229, Harvard University Press

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• There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.

  Albert Camus

  Hurt, Emptiness, Terrible

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• In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Forgiving, Injury, Magnanimity

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales”, p.238, tredition

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• I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Mets, Blank

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some have floated on the sea, and trouble carried them on its surface as the sea carries cork. Some have sunk at once to the bottom as foundering ships sink. Some have run away from their own thoughts. Some have coiled themselves up into a stoical indifference. Some have braved the trouble, and defied it. Some have carried it as a tree does a wound, until by new wood it can overgrow and cover the old gash.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Men, Sea

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Mean, Profound, Use

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

  Edward Kennedy

  Generations, Sirens, Complacency

  Edward Moore Kennedy (1979). “Our Day and Generation: The Words of Edward M. Kennedy”

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• Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Real, Ideas, Tolerance

  Twitter post from Jan 13, 2015

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• Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology.

  Mordecai Richler

  Apology, Self, Wheat

  1971 Of Canada. St Urbain's Horseman, ch.1.

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• Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fellow men, but also without fear of it.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Men, Looks, Fellow Man

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 126. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations....What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless the masters who either despise or oppress or combine both? The apathy that exists respecting Ireland is worse than the national antipathy they bear us.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Ignorance, Army, Suffering

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• No one can ever heap enough insults upon me to suit my taste. I think we all really thrive on hostility, because it's the most intense kind of massage the ego can undergo. Other people's indifference is the only horror.

  Paul Bowles

  Thinking, People, Ego

  Paul Bowles, Jeffrey Miller (2014). “In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles”, p.192, Macmillan

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• With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Humility, Hands, Example

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1982). “Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature”

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• You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

  Glen Duncan

  Beauty, Thinking, Forgiving

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• [The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

  Yann Martel

  Fate, Animal, Past

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice & Virgil”, p.97, Knopf Canada

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• But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference.

  Karl Rahner

  Long, Orthodoxy, Form

  1963 'Natur undGnade' in Fragen derTheologieHeute (translated by DinahWharton as Nature and Grace,1963).

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• Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Ignorance, Cutting, Perfect

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• The act of greatest subversion ... is the one of indifference. A man, or a group, finds it unbearable that someone can be simply uninterested in his, or its, convictions. ... There is a degree of complicity, or mutual respect, between the believer and the man who attacks his beliefs (the revolutionary), for the latter takes them seriously.

  John Carroll

  Men, Groups, Degrees

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.43, Taylor & Francis

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• The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by hate, by misinformation, by ignorance, by indifference. Science has accomplished miracles over the past 20 years, and science can now end this disease - but it cannot end the epidemic. We need more than medicine. We can do something about these things. We need to speak out about the changes we need to make in our society.

  Elton John

  Hate, Ignorance, Past

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• Tomorrow is Election Day. It's what they call the midterm elections, and you can cut the indifference with a knife. It's the day Americans leave work early and pretend to vote.

  David Letterman

  Cutting, Knives, Tomorrow

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• Samadhi is an experience of such depth, such joy, such indifference and such love, that nothing else is really like it or worthwhile in comparison, yet it gives shape, color and meaning to everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Color, Giving, Joy

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• Why this strange indifferences to missions? Why these scant contributions? Why does money fail to be forthcoming when approved men and women are asking to be sent to proclaim the “unsearchable riches of Christ” to the heathen?

  Lottie Moon

  Men, Doe, Asking

  Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.225, Mercer University Press

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• Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Organization, Literature, Irony

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• Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

  Cesare Pavese

  Perfect, Behaviour, Behavior

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950”, London : P. Owen

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