Indifference Quotes

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Damn them for giving me nothing and taking it away before I had it! Damn mother for her grandness and her indifference and her disdain of me, and damn daddy for the crazy, mixed-up life he led and the daughter he never gave a damn for, and damn uncle Lionel for treating me like the boarding-school bitch I am, and damn aunt Ethel who doesn`t even know I`m alive, and damn me for being a silly, arrogant, affected schoolgirl! God damn us all! We deserve everything we get

- Diana Barrymore

I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw. And his quote was, `The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.` I know it`s not very funny being a comedian talking about the Holocaust, but I think it`s an interesting idea that not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite. They just had to be apathetic.

- Sacha Baron Cohen

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. To save, he used to put the water 4 inches from the bottom. At home everything was ugly, casual, lacking in love, from furniture to clothes, to behaviors...

- Vincent Gallo

Asperger`s syndrome helped make the movies. The symptoms of this developmental disorder include early precocity, a great ability to maintain masses of information, a lack of ability to mix with groups in age-appropriate aways, ignorance of or indifference to social norms, high intelligence, and difficulty with transitions married to a preternatural ability to concentrate on the minutiae of the task at hand. This sounds to me like a job description for a movie director.

- David Mamet

(on Michelangelo Antonioni) He`s done two masterpieces, you don`t have to bother with the rest. One is Blowup (1966), which I`ve seen many times, and the other is Notte, La (1961), also a wonderful film, although that`s mostly because of the young Jeanne Moreau. In my collection I have a copy of Grido, Il (1957) and damn what a boring movie it is. So devilishly sad, I mean. You know, Antonioni never really learned the trade. He concentrated on single images, never realizing that film is a rhythmic flow of images, a movement. Sure, there are brilliant moments in his films. But I don`t feel anything for Avventura, L` (1960), for example. Only indifference. I never understood why Antonioni was so incredibly applauded. And I thought his muse Monica Vitti was a terrible actress."

- Ingmar Bergman

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

- Clare Boothe Luce

I don`t believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

- Max von Sydow

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body`s final fall, nor the barrels of death`s rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

- Roger Waters

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it`s detachment.

- Sam Snead

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.

- Al Goldstein

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

- Stephen Evans

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

- Karel Capek

It would indicate complete indifference to the laws relating to speed,

- Peter Evans

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.

- Robert Frank

We don`t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

- Bill Moyers

He`s just showing an indifference to the situation. He`ll just sell the house and run away - he`s already run away.

- Terry Sweeney

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

- Joseph Wambaugh

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

- Andrea Dworkin

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

- Aaron Scott

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

- Adina Rosenbaum

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

- Alan Mersnick

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

- Alderman Dana McLendon

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

- Allen Hirsch

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

- Amanda Egan

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

- Andi Burr

The opposite of love is not hate, it`s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it`s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it`s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it`s indifference.

- Elie Wiesel

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference

- Bess Myerson

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

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

- Haile Selassie

The opposite of love is not hate, it`s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it`s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it`s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it`s indifference.

- Elie Wiesel

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

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

- Dag Hammarskjold

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity

- Edmund Burke

Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America`s newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many American editors and publishers.

- Loren Ghiglione

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

- Plato

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference

- Rachel Carson

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they`d never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.

- Senator John Kerry

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

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.

- William Hazlitt