Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust"
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Indifference
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Elie Wiesel
Writer, Holocaust Survivor
"An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman"
Charlie Chaplin
Actor, Filmmaker, Composer
"Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference."
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference."
James A. Baldwin
Writer
"Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind."
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"Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference."
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"One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers."
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"Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference."
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"What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it."
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"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference."
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"The great enemy of morality is indifference."
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"Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within."
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"There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference."
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"Everything is pathology, except for indifference."
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"Indifference is the essence of inhumanity."
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"The price of eternal vigilance is indifference."
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"Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve."
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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."
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"Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies."
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"He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe"
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"I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion."
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"I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me."
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"Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other."
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"But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference."
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"Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is."
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