Indifference Quotes - Page 31

• Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.

  Alexander Sutherland Neill

  Love, Hate, Opposites

  Alexander Sutherland Neill (1969). “Summerhill: a radical appoach to education”

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• My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.

  Vincent Gallo

  Mother, Father, Book

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

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• In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Attitude, Gnosticism, Suffering

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• When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Artist, Culture, Genius

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• And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.

  John Banville

  World, Happened

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• The enemies inside us: Indifference, Indecision, Doubt, Worry, and Over-caution.

  Jim Rohn

  Worry, Doubt, Enemy

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• Indifference to our neighbour and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Real, Years

  "Make your hearts firm". Pope Francis' message for Lent 2015 from the Vatican, w2.vatican.va. October 4, 2014.

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• When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Hatred, Temptation

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• Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

  Joseph Addison

  Wine, Men, Vanity

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Francis Prévost, Francis William Blagdon (1833). “The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes”, p.118

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• God may be a matter of indifference to the evolutionists, and a life beyond may have no charm for them, but the mass of mankind will continue to worship their creator and continue to find comfort in the promise of their Savior that he has gone to prepare a place for them.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Promise, Matter, Comfort

  William Jennings Bryan (1924). “William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

  Nicolas Gomez Davila

  Unique, Civilization, Violence

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• Indifference is the dead weight of history.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Weight

  Antonio Gramsci (1975). “History, Philosophy and Culture in the Young Gramsci”

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• Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deeply
  sincere. For God doesn't mind your imperfections: He minds your
  indifference.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Imperfection, Mind, Faults

  Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

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• No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.

  Cory Booker

  Kindness, Hate, Despair

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Mar 01, 2016

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• As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repen t and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference, our hardness of heart. What are we to believe? Jesus thirsts even now, in your heart and in the poor -- He knows your weakness. He wants only your love, wants only the chance to love you.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Believe, Love You

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• But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Determination, Feelings, Doe

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.115, HarperCollins UK

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• It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference

  Elie Wiesel

  People, Hatred

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• Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.

  Pope John Paul II

  Disappointment, Attitude, Responsibility

  Pope John Paul II (1980). “Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States”, HarperCollins

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• Perez Hilton is brilliant to me. Because he’s taken something that people don’t think is valid, don’t think is important, and he’s made them obsessed with it. People are obsessed with him. They’re obsessed with his site, they’re obsessed with what he does. They love him. They all love him. They love you, they hate you, what you don’t want is indifference. The day that I put a record out that nobody says a damn thing about, that’s bad.

  Lady Gaga

  Hate, Love You, Taken

  "Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame". Book by Emily Herbert, 2010.

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• Your life of indifference to the risen Christ and of halfhearted attention now and then to a few of his commandments will appear on that day as supremely blameworthy and infinitely foolish, and you will . . . weep that you did not change.”8

  Daniel L. Akin

  Attention, Christ, Foolish

  Daniel L. Akin (2012). “Ten Who Changed the World”, p.5, B&H Publishing Group

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• He watched a catbird hopping around in an azalea that was readying itself to bloom; he envied the bird for knowing nothing of what he knew; he would have swapped souls with it in a heartbeat. And then to take wing, to know the air's buoyancy even for an hour: the trad was a no-brainer, and the catbird, with its lively indifference to him, its sureness of physical selfhood, seemed well aware of how preferable it was to be the bird.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Azaleas, Knowing Nothing, Air

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• While I am watching the birds I believe I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity of these wild creatures affords me a certain safeguard. Where all else is dangerous, hostile and liable to inflict pain, they alone can do me no injury because, probably, they are not even aware of my existence. The birds are at once my refuge and my relaxation.

  Anna Kavan

  Pain, Believe, Bird

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• I do not know why it matters that I should tell the truth to myself at night, why it should matter that the truth should be spoken at least once in the world. Because the world is a place of silence, the sky at night when the birds have gone is a vast silent place. Words will make the slightest difference to the sky at night. They will not brighten it or make it less strange. And the day too has its own deep indifference to anything that is said.

  Colm Toibin

  Night, Sky, Differences

  Colm Toibin (2014). “The Testament of Mary: A Novel”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Apollo, Care

  The New York Times, July 21, 1969.

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• Atheism in legislation, indifference in matters of religion, and the pernicious maxims which go under the name of Liberal Catholicism are the true causes of the destruction of states; they have been the ruin of France. Believe me, the evil I denounce is more terrible than the Revolution, more terrible even than The Commune. I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism, and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.

  Pope Pius IX

  Believe, Names, Evil

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