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Source: Language and Silence

“But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on the part of the perpetrator to the rest of the world in general, are not only registered on the delicate surfaces of the brain but eat little holes in it until it finally collapses or blows up.”

Source: Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces

“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.”

Art Age Form Youth Cold Injustice Old Age Indifference Apathy Decline Depravity Premature Perversion Miscarriage Degeneration Grumbling Indifference And Apathy

Author:Anton Chekhov

“The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now, and it will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.”

Earth Lying Sound Sleep Progress Tree Sea Movement Eternal Perfection Salvation Indifference Rising Life And Death Spokes Hollow Pledge Monotonous Constancy Rising Up Grasshoppers

Author:Anton Chekhov

“When New Yorkers tell one about the dangers of their city, the muggings, the dinner parties to which no one turns up for fear of being attacked on the way, the traffic snarl-ups, the bland indifference of the city cops, they are unmistakably bragging.”

Way Turns Party Cities Danger New York Dinner Indifference Cop Traffic New Yorkers Bragging Dinner Party Bland

Book:Soft City: Picador Classic

Source: Soft City: Picador Classic

“For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.”

Firsts Government Newspapers Indifference

Author:Adolphe Thiers

“For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.”

Feels Firsts Heart Made Stills Happiness Universe Realizing My Heart First Time Indifference Benign Brotherly

Author:Albert Camus

“The pangs of pain, of failure, in this mortal lot, are the birth-throes of transition to better things. We are separated for a time by the indifference of space and our blindness which particularizes and isolates us. But in us is a longing for unity.”

Pain Space Birth Longing Unity Mortals Indifference Transition Blindness

Author:John Elof Boodin

“To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the rest, can be real only as an idea, and so all I can do is create a colour nuance that means grey but is not it. The painting is then a mixture of grey as a fiction and grey as a visible, designated area of colour.”

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an important colour - the ideal colour for indifference, fence-sitting, keeping quiet, despair. In other words, for states of being and situations that affect one, and for which one would like to find a visual expression.”

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.”

World Trying Mind Effort Meditation Hatred Indifference Remove

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at best or outright antipathy at worst.”

States Church Worst Consequence Claims Indifference Rebellion Cynicism Skepticism Antipathy Against Religion

Book:Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock

Source: Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock

“Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that persuasion is far more powerful than coercion when it comes to promoting one's religious views. . . . Not surprisingly, then, large numbers of religious leaders have supported the Supreme Court in its prayer decisions.”

Source: Finding time & other delicacies

“It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because there is nothing to interest the imagination; because the judgment sits free and unbiased to examine the point. All proportions, every arrangement of quantity, is alike to the understanding, because the same truths result to it from all; from greater from lesser, from equality and inequality.”

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

Hard Water Higher Office Indifference Engaged Candidates Testing

Author:Jeff Greenfield

“In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in indifference.”

Culture Indifference Realms Contradictory Totalitarianism Coexist Pluralism

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.”

Love Hate Love Is Opposites Indifference Love And Hate

Book:Summerhill: a radical appoach to education

Source: Summerhill: a radical appoach to education

“My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.”

Wells Book Feelings Home Mother Father Parent Interest Records Taste Indifference Filling Bad Taste Emblems Bathtubs Stingy Filling Up

Author:Vincent Gallo

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