I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
Indifference Quotes
The only menace is inertia.
To be pulled in many opposite ways at once results negatively, but it is not the same thing as to feel no impulse at all. An ass between two bales of hay is said to have died of starvation, but not from indifference.
Many of us have no real loves and no real hatreds. Blessed is love, less blessed is hatred, but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other.
There never was an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
Each of us in his own person feels that a high-hearted indifference to life would expiate all his short-comings.
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
Many… teach us not to trust ourselves with favorite enjoyments, not to indulge the luxury of fondness, but to keep our minds always suspended in such indifference that we may change the objects about us without emotion… An attempt to preserve life in a state of neutrality and indifference is unreasonable and vain.
There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.
