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Indifference Quotes

On the line between tolerance and distance.

These indifference quotes ask whether tolerance is really its own kind of distance, a question that runs Against easy answers.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

Quotes by Tom Stoppard

Congressional intervention and the availability of intervention demonstrably offset agency indifference; are a guard against arbitrary, improper, and illegal bureaucratic decisions; and provide the power of public pressure to require the nonelected official to be responsive.

Quotes by Terry Sanford

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

Quotes by Stephen Evans

Against Quotes

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

Quotes by Samuel Richardson

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Politeness is organized indifference.

Quotes by Paul Valery

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Quotes by Lord Byron

Another Quotes

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

Quotes by Karel Capek

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

Quotes by Jeff Greenfield

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

Quotes by James Reston

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Quotes by Jack Kerouac

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

J.K. Rowling

Availability Quotes

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Quotes by Iris Murdoch

Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

Quotes by Gore Vidal

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

George Eliot

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

George Eliot

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

Quotes by Emil Cioran

Based Quotes

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

Quotes by Elie Wiesel

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the central question these indifference quotes raise?
They ask whether indifference is simply another word for tolerance, or something different, a form of studied distance.
Do the quotes discuss privacy?
Yes, one quote describes a reclusive writer who wanted it known, ironically, just how completely uninterested he was in public attention.
Is indifference connected to relativism?
Yes, one quote argues that passionate indifference is necessary in relativism, so opposing voices don't have to be heard.
Does the collection treat indifference as purely negative?
Not entirely, some quotes present it as a deliberate stance or coping mechanism rather than simple carelessness.
Where can I read more quotes on this theme?
Browse our Another collection for more quotes exploring related emotional territory.

One writer's wish for total privacy sits alongside a more philosophical take on relativism, showing indifference isn't just Another word for apathy.