“If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.” IfsFeelingsGrowsColdRegardFortuneIndifferent Author:George Matthew Adams
“I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to one`s own habits, beliefs, and tastes. Thus being tolerant does not mean being indifferent towards the actions and feelings of others. Understanding and empathy must also be present.” MeanDoeFeelingsActionIndividualBeliefUnderstandingViewsQualityHabitTasteEmpathyAppreciationToleranceIndifferentAffable Book:Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives
“What is called “apathy” is, I believe, a feeling of helplessness on the part of the ordinary citizen, a feeling of impotence in the face of enormous power. It’s not that people are apathetic; they do care about what is going on, but don’t know what to do about it, so they do nothing, and appear to be indifferent.” PeopleKnowsBelieveFeelingsCareFacesI BelieveCitizensOrdinaryEnormousApathyIndifferentHelplessnessImpotenceApatheticOrdinary Citizens Author:Howard Zinn
“Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can't stand us, and people who absolutely can't live without us. I'd rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent.” PeopleKindFeelingsBandOppositesSparksIndifferentPolar OppositesPolarizing Author:Ben Gibbard
“The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.” WorldSaidFeelingsHandsLastsDiesThis WorldVictimLaysAssumingCreditViolentExcessIndifferentAlasDisgustedEnnuiInactivity Author:Charles Caleb Colton
“Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.” IfsFeelsReasonFeelingsPassionInterestPerfectMinutesSubjectsTenClothesConcernRootsDressesComplexesIndifferentTopicsStraightforwardGuardedTouchyOverbearingDeep Roots Author:Elizabeth Bowen