(140 quotes found)
“Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.”
Bill Clinton
“The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.”
Iris Murdoch
“There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.”
Clare Boothe Luce
“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
“Politeness is organized indifference”
Paul Valery
“Set honor in one eye and death i' the other And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death”
William Shakespeare
“When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.”
Jesse Jackson
“The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference”
Bess Myerson
“We cloak ourselves in cold indifference to the unnecessary suffering of others - even when we cause it.”
James Carroll
