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Tolerance is another word for indifference. — W. Somerset Maugham

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

They had it all wrong, of course. Bravery wasn't required to conquer fear. Indifference was. — Stephanie Kuehn

The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil and gas. — Vladimir Sorokin

ADIAPHORY (ADIA'PHORY) n.s.[Gr.]Neutrality; indifference. — Samuel Johnson

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit. — Thomas A Kempis

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention. — Guy Davenport

The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom. — Timothy Ferriss

But the superiority of the British is that it is a matter of complete indifference to them if they appear to be stupid. — Margaret MacMillan

It's not always easy to keep going when faced with indifference or to watch values being defined by a mass infatuation with mediocrity. — Nick Bantock

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers. — Oscar Wilde

heart lurches because the glance he directs at me displays neither love, nor hate, but a careless indifference, — Magda Alexander

Just for the record the weather today is slightly sarcastic, with a good chance of A. indifference and B. disinterest in what the critics say. — Panic At The Disco

Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference. — Terry Rossio

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat. — Agnes Repplier

I hate feeling hate but feeling nothing feels worse. — Brian Spellman

The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart. — Mencius

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. — Juan Montalvo

Don't you have an STD to spread?" I tilted my head in cool indifference.
He pushed away from the wall, "Why, you open for business? — Rachel Van Dyken

Indifference is a quarantined difference. — Akiane Kramarik

Toleration is often just indifference in disguise. — Frederick Buechner

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

I wasn't sure which I appreciated less - the insincere concern or the genuine indifference. — Arthur Graham

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. — Edmund Burke

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. — Robert Maynard Hutchins

Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian. — Pope Francis

The universe doesn't know good or bad, only less or more. — Pat Cadigan

Indifference kills. It takes much less thought to be indifferent than to hate. — L.R.W. Lee

Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatest
of them all, because it is the only one that sins against life. — Karl Ove Knausgard

An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes. — Marty Rubin

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference! — Emil Cioran

As Anthony Thiselton puts it, The opposite of love is not correction but indifference. — Alexander Strauch

Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other. — Elie Wiesel

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all
the apathy of human beings. — Helen Keller

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. — Norman Cousins

Dieu! It is that in this country you treat the affairs gastronomic with a criminal indifference. — Agatha Christie

Love gratified is love satisfied,
and love satisfied is indifference begun — Samuel Richardson

Lady Utterword: What a lovely night! It seems made for us. Hector: The night takes no interest in us. What are we to the night? — George Bernard Shaw

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference. — Joe Biden

One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference. — Alexandra David-Neel

The homelessness of nature, its utter indifference to human existence, disclose to the infinite player that nature is the genius of the dramatic. — James P. Carse

It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference about the well-being of others'. — John Stuart Mill

He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings. — Anne Frank

Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion. — Lord Chesterfield

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference. — Albert Camus

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. — George Eliot

Our memory of joys and sorrows is always imperfect, and they become a matter of indifference to us as soon as they are over. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Indifference was the best remedy. Once you conceded defeat, life was a feather bed. — Clive Barker

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself. — Richard Whately

They're indifference should not be the cause of your non-existence. — Flor Hernandez

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference. — William J. Clinton

The sage has in the world an appearance of indecision, and keeps his mind in a state of indifference to all. — Lao-Tzu

May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference. — Pope Francis

Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do. — Joyce Rachelle

I love your indifference. I love how you really just don't give a shit what people think. — Colleen Hoover

A mind that establishes indifference is the mind that builds failure. — Israelmore Ayivor

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. — Albert Camus

They say the opposite of love isn't hate, but indifference. — B.N. Toler

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 only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. — Dag Hammarskjold

Break free from the chains which shackle each soul through the binding links of fear, greed and indifference? — Bryant McGill

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life. — H.W. Brands

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman — Elie Wiesel

Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse. — Jane Austen

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

God is missed through laziness, indifference and unwillingness. — Jesse Duplantis

For the first time, he considered that utter indifference might inspire not inner peace but a limitless capacity for evil. — Dean Koontz

The most deadly poison of our time is indifference. — Maximilian Kolbe

The bottom line is that indifference is really a form of selfishness. — John C. Maxwell

He marveled at the indifference of the world, the way it kept on, despite everything. — Anthony Doerr

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance. — Christopher Lasch

Fear cannot exist when one is indifferent to life. — Evadne Price

Love cannot be indifferent to the needs of suffering and afflicted people — Sunday Adelaja

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood. — Henry Ward Beecher

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result. — Mahatma Gandhi

Most evangelicals have bought into the need for apparent indifference when writing about massively important things. — John Piper

Indifference to all the refinements of life
it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology. — Aldous Huxley

Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity. — Pope Francis

I am sensitive soul; I feel with the moon,
I use to be judged for my indifference, now I see their all just hiding behind false truths. — Nikki Rowe

The great enemy of morality is indifference. — Albert Schweitzer

Mme. Deluzy has said that indifference is a woman's guardian angel,
a remark not only applicable in France, but all over the world. — Anna Cora Mowatt

The universe isn't for or against us; it isn't even indifferent. — Marty Rubin

The total ugliness and indifference of the worst features of the human race come out in their driving habits. — Charles Bukowski

Feelings and togetherness might cause hatred but indifference doesn't even know what feeling is. — Pratee Singh

Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six! — George Colman The Elder

Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood. — Susan Abulhawa

People who are indifferent about the happenings around them are human biomasses. — Sunday Adelaja

Reacher liked New York more than most places. He liked the casual indifference of it all and the frantic hustle and the total anonymity. — Lee Child

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference. — Lord Chesterfield

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word. — Charlaine Harris

She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference. — Susan Wiggs

She felt an odd, light-hearted indifference, as if she suddenly wanted nothing but the comfort of surrendering to helplessness. — Ayn Rand

Indifference creates an artificial peace. — Mason Cooley

And who can be ill natured and bad tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference? — Emily Bronte

Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference. — Martha Ostenso

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe — Albert Camus

The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference. — Jewel

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference. — John Walford

One day we will destroy the moon with indifference! — Joseph Fink

It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference — Elie Wiesel