Quotes with indifference

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  • André Maurois Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Elie Wiesel Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • André Maurois People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Cesare Pavese Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Iris Murdoch Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Albert Camus Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Iris Murdoch 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
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Bess Myerson The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
    Bess Myerson
    American politician and model (1924 - 2014)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Norman Cousins 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
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Elie Wiesel 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
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Agnes Repplier The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Blaise Pascal The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Albert Camus To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Joan Didion To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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