Quotes Tagged "indifference"

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.

Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.

Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

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.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.