I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.
I want to say with the utmost of sincerity not as a Republican but as an American that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee not because of his color but with indifference to it.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life by indifference by philosophy and by religion.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
I have no consistency except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect indifference cruelty or adultery to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.
The opposite of love is not hate it's indifference.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart or its flame burns low.
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who well treated might have been an angel.
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
The sensitivity of men to small matters and their indifference to great ones indicates a strange inversion.
Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is at bottom no design no purpose no evil no good nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
Not the torturer will scare me nor the body's final fall nor the barrels of death's rifles nor the shadows on the wall nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless unfeeling world.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy indifference and undernourishment.
Because of indifference one dies before one actually dies.
Real nobility is based on scorn courage and profound indifference.
Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.
Love turns with a little indulgence to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene or even health is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or better still feel a healthy indifference to it.
Old age is far more than white hair wrinkles the feeling that it is too late and the game finished that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body but the indifference of the soul.
Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.