Quotes with indifferent

  • While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
  • Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can't stand us, and people who absolutely can't live without us. I'd rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent.
  • Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
  • Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
  • All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
  • But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
  • Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
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  • Hannah Whitall Smith The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
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  • Jean Baudrillard We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Peter Marshall A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
    Peter Marshall
    Scots-American preacher (1902 - 1949)
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  • Lord Chesterfield All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.
    Letters (1892)
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Berthold Auerbach All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Anthony Trollope But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Cass Sunstein Democrats pride themselves on their commitment to science. Citing climate change, they contend that they are the party of truth, while Republicans are 'denialists.' But with respect to genetically modified organisms, many Democrats seem indifferent to science, and to be practicing a denialism of their own - perhaps more so than Republicans.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Robert Lynd It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • James Baldwin It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Sebastian Faulks It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.
    Birdsong (2010) 290
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols - it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • B. C. Forbes Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • George Steiner Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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