Indifferent Quotes

• Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

  Elie Wiesel

  Giving, Meaning Of Life, Overcoming

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  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

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• If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Attachment

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

  Whitney M. Young

  Courage, Strong, Giving

  "Character: Whitney Young". "Independent Lens ", TV Series (1999– ). "The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights", www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

  Suzanne Collins

  Tongue, Mask, District 12

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

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• The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent

  Stanley Kubrick

  Facts, Hostile, Universe

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  However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Light, Darkness, Existentialism

  Interview with Eric Nordern, Playboy, September 1968.

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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 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 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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• Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

  Richard Dawkins

  Nature, Learning, Science

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River out of eden: a Darwinian view of life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Wise, Wisdom, Powerful

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1960). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

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• The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

  Carl Sagan

  Cosmos, Existentialism, Benign

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 250, 1980.

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• Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

  Francis Picabia

  Pain, Indifference, Reason

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• Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Strong Women, Philosophical, Enemy

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.65, Penguin UK

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• The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Eye, Mind, Sahara

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.132, A&C Black

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• The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life And Love, Taken, People

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• So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Blood, Law

  "Complete Works of Mark Twain".

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• Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Mind, Despair, Indifference

  "Fictional character: Henri Verdoux". "Monsieur Verdoux", www.imdb.com. 1947.

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• Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

  Virginia Woolf

  Numbness, People, Soul

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2280, Delphi Classics

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• The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Apathy, Sin, Worst

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• The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Light, Darkness, Meaning Of Life

  Interview with Eric Nordern, Playboy, September 1968.

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• To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Dream, Thinking

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• Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

  George Steiner

  Men, Apathy, Indifference

  George Steiner (2010). “Language and Silence”, p.225, Faber & Faber

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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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