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Indifference Quotes
"The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals."
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"There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference."
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"If we're honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference."
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"I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me."
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"James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized."
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"Tolerance is another word for indifference."
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"Darkness feeds on apathy."
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"What makes you think that I give a shit about your self-confidence?"
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"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."
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"It's only awkward if it matters."
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"His words were coated with glorious boredom."
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"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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"Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?"I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?"
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"The More Loving OneLooking up at the stars, I know quite wellThat, for all they care, I can go to hell,But on earth indifference is the leastWe have to dread from man or beast.How should we like it were stars to burnWith a passion for us, we could not return?If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.Admirer as I think I amOf stars that do not give a damn,I cannot, now I see them, sayI missed one terribly all day.Were all stars to disappear or die,I should learn to look at an empty skyAnd feel its total dark sublime,Though this might take me a little time."
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"Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time."
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