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Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
Sep 28, 2025
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.
Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees...
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.
Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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.
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
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