I Quotes
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“Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.”
“Indifference is the worst kind of response when love is expressed. Hate is not the antithesis of love; it’s the nonexistence of feeling, a pervasive apathy. When hate is present, so is love. It’s passion gone sour and fueled by pain, but, nonetheless, it’s passion and love is apparently still alive. Yet when indifference seeps into our spirits, an emotional numbness and permitted scotoma takes the place of any passion – whether it’s love or hate – and resigns in a new state of being.”
“Indifference isn't suffering."
"It's worse.”
Source: Thus Were Their Faces
“Indifference looks like detachment, but it is not; indifference is simply no interest. Detachment is not absence of interest - detachment is absolute interest, tremendous interest, but still with the capacity of non-clinging. Enjoy the moment while it is there and when the moment starts disappearing, as everything is bound to disappear, let it go. That is detachment.”
Source: From I to Q
“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.”
Source: The Friendship of Art
“Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.”
Source: Aphorisms
“Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation fed by a subtle fear of the heart. We pull back, believing that what happens to others is not our concern. Our courage leaves us. Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.”
Source: The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace
“Indifference suits roaches, not humans.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Indifference
This hate has blossomed like a living love,
grieving, watching its own exhaustion.
It seeks a face, it seeks flesh, as though it were love.
The worldly flesh and the voices that spoke
are dead, all has shuddered away,
all life hangs on a voice.
Days pass in bitter ecstasy to the sad
caress of the voice that returns
and drains the blood from our faces. Not without sweetness
that voice returns to the mind exhausted
and trembling: once it trembled for me.
But the flesh does not tremble. Only love
could set it alight, this hate seeks it out.
All the possessions, all the flesh and all the voices
in the world cannot equal the burning caress
of that body and those eyes. In the bitter ecstasy
that kills itself, this hate still finds
each day a glance, a broken word,
and grasps them, hungrily, like love.”
Source: Selected poems
“Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.”
“Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.”
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy
“Indifference to love or hate is sitting on the fence between the two, refusing to engage either one of them. Indifference, if it had its own way, would prefer to step away from the whole struggle between love and hate, to walk away from the only real game in the world and wallow in its own mediocrity.”
“Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.”
“Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally.”
“Indifference to our neighbour and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience.”
“Indifference to snobbery, bigotry and savagery turns them into the norm of a society.”
Source: No Foreigner Only Family
“Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.”
“Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.”
“Indifference was our greatest enemy.”
Source: Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human
“Indifference, lukewarmness, and neutrality are always attached to failure.”
“Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.”
“Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.”
“Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.”
“Indifferent to the sorrow and delight,
Untempted by the marvel and the call,
Immobile it beheld the flux of things,
Calm and apart supported all that is:
His spirit’s stillness helped the toiling world.
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Source: Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast and loose with national security: The case against Hillary Clinton for president is open-and-shut. Of course, against all these considerations you might prefer the newly fashionable and more media-weighty notion that if you don't show her enough appreciation, and after all she's done for us, she may cry.”
“INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Indifferentism about doctrine makes no heroes of the faith.”
Source: Christianity and Liberalism
“Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.”
Source: Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual
“Indigence is one of those states, politicians less likely wish to manage.”
“Indigenes of a country who snob at foreigners and use offensive words like “Go back to your country” or “You don’t belong here” fail to recognize that their fellow countrymen are in other countries too”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“indigenismo can subvert the colonized mentality found among mestizo peoples that elevates the European and denigrates the Indian. For Chicano/a youth, discovering they have roots in indigenous, often advanced, pre-Columbian cultures can help develop a sense of potential empowerment. "My ancestors invented rubber? Wow!" exclaimed one incredulous Los Angeles gang member to a youth counselor telling him about ancient Mexico and the Olmecas (who didn't exactly invent rubber, since Nature was the inventor, but who surely did develop it). Such discoveries can be a first step toward understanding and respecting the worldview of indigenous peoples.”
Source: De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
“Indigenous foods die when no one learns to cook them.”
Source: Made from Scratch: Reclaiming the Pleasures of the American Hearth
“Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.”
“Indigenous people from Brazil to Uganda are finding that some of the most aggressive land grabbing is being done by conservation organizations. A forest is suddenly rebranded a carbon offset and is put off-limits to its traditional inhabitants. As a result, the carbon offset market has created a whole new class of green human rights abuses, with farmers and Indigenous people being physically attacked by park rangers or private security when they try to access these lands.”
Source: On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
“Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.”
“Indigenous peoples do not destroy their homelands, colonizers do. Colonizers are adept at destroying what does not belong to them, especially when they cannot unlawfully claim or steal it. They bring harm wherever they go. They often assert that Indigenous people are helpless without them or incapable of sustaining themselves, all while being the ones who have stolen from and devastated Indigenous communities. It is colonizers who sabotage, manipulate, destroy, and interfere with the lives and lands of Indigenous peoples. They refuse to leave Indigenous people in peace with their own land and resources.”
“Indigenous programs and policy will come within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet because Indigenous policy and programs should not be an add - on, they should not be an afterthought, but they should be at the heart of a good Australian Government.”
“Indigenous religious traditions around the world continue to provide an ancient yet living vision of nature as sacred, requiring human respect and entailing human responsibilities. Anymals are understood to be “people” living in community as humans live in community—all of whom are part of a larger community of living beings. Indigenous religious traditions teach people that we owe respect, responsibility, and compassion to our nonhuman kin, and remember a time of great peace, before predation began. Most indigenous peoples believe that all beings are endowed with souls. Anymals are generally thought to hold exceptional abilities and remarkable powers.”
Source: Animals and World Religions
“Indigenous survival in the face of erasure speaks to our resilience, adaptability, and—when necessary—an obstinance that has survived three centuries of oppression. So the next time you read or hear in a land acknowledgment that "these are the ancestral lands of..." remember that we never left.”
Source: On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice
“Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.”
“Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Indignant reply to the blatent sex discrimination expressed in a colleague's opposition when Hilbert proposed appointing Emmy Noether as the first woman professor at their university.”
“Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.”
Source: Our Social and Sexual Revolution: Major Issues for a New Century
“Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the other.”
“Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.”
Source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Illustrated Edition): Autobiographical Works (Memoirs, Complete Letters, Literary Introspection, Thoughts and Notes on Poetry); Including Extensive Biographies and Studies on S. T. Coleridge
“Indignation caused Mercedes to puff out her cheeks temporarily, causing her narrow face to resemble a set of inflated fireplace bellows. “You don’t like Mr. Swift any more than I do,” she retorted.
“No,” Lillian said frankly. “But much as I hate to admit it, that puts us in a minority. Swift is liked by everyone in the northern hemisphere, including Westcliff and his friends, my friends, the servants, the neighbors—”
“You are exaggerating—”
“—children, animals and the higher order of plants,” Lillian finished sardonically. “If root vegetables could talk, I’ve no doubt they would say they like him, too.”
Daisy, who was sitting by the window with a book, looked up with a sudden grin. “His charm doesn’t extend to poultry,” she said.”
Source: Scandal in Spring
“Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.”
“Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“Indignation is often the best defense.”
Source: Due Justice