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Indifference Quotes


"There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference."


"James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized."


"The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals."


"I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me."


"Darkness feeds on apathy."


"Tolerance is another word for indifference."


"If we're honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference."


"What makes you think that I give a shit about your self-confidence?"


"The attitude of the city on his action was of no importance to him, not because he was going to leave the city, but because any outside attitude on the situation seemed superficial. He was completely indifferent to popular opinion."


"His words were coated with glorious boredom."


"It's only awkward if it matters."


"Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?"I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?"


"All these nice clothes, all these jokes and drinks and food, what good does it do? Tomorrow, folk will be poor and starving and dying with a solder's pike in them, and these people will have another celebration, more nice clothes, more jokes, more gems. The suffering is forgotten or ignored - why sorrow? The war victims aren't our people. And then the wheel turns and suddenly they are our people."
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