(140 quotes found)
“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
“The most destructive criticism is indifference”
Edgar Watson Howe
“Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.”
Warren E. Burger
“Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.”
Sydney J. Harris
“Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity”
Edmund Burke
“Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference to the unique values which created it.”
Nicolas Gomez Davila
“James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.”
Tom Stoppard
“When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don’t sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may be delivering the worst messages today, but history shows that grass-roots energy has the power to change anything when that energy is focused toward justice”
Senator John Kerry
“Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run”
Bliss Carman
