| "Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose." »Richard Dawkins |
| "The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it unfriendly. It is simply indifferent." »John Andrew Holmes |
| "In politics I am growing indifferent -- I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home." »Francois Arouet |
| "The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them that's the essense of inhumanity." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed." »Whitney Moore Young |
| "A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success." »Alec Waugh |
| "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." »Hannah Whitall Smith |
| "We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world." »Albert Einstein |
| "I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent." »Assyrian Proverb |
| "Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything." »Johann K. Lavater |
| "Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its stability has been gravely shattered. It is characteristic of such a situation that individuals feel indifferent or even hostile toward the group, small or large, to which they belong. In order to illustrate my meaning, let me record here a personal experience. I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race" »Albert Einstein |
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