45 quotes found
“What makes life dreary is want of motive.”
“Once conform once do what others do because they do it and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.”
“Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair but to he who does not concern us at all.”
“Most of us have no real loves and no real hatreds. Blessed is love less blessed is hatred but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other.”
“The only menace is inertia.”
“Tolerance is a tremendous virtue but the immediate neighbours of tolerance are apathy and weakness.”
“The true opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Hate bad as it is at least treats the neighbour as a thou whereas indifference turns the neighbour into an it a thing. This is why we may...”
“If moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime.”
“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.”
“You can’t get a reaction from someone who doesn’t give a shit.”
“from “The Unquarried Blue of Those Depths Is All But Blinding,” There are some things we just don’t talk about—Not even in the morning, when we’re waking,When your calloused fingers tentatively wal...”
“Since the basic cause of man’s anxiety is the possibility of being either a saint or a sinner, it follows that there are only two alternatives for him. Man can either mount upward to the peak of et...”
“Silence and indifference would not take you anywhere at the end of the day. It is only people who show upright positions in standing for the truth that win at last. When we become quiet at the coll...”
“It is now certain that the public does know. It is not so certain that the public does care.”
“It was not only Odette's indifference, however, that he must take pains to circumvent; it was also, not infrequently, his own; feeling that, since Odette had had every facility for seeing him, she ...”
“Communists have committed great crimes but at least they have not stood aside like an established society and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.”
“Hate is not the opposite of love apathy is.”
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.”
