Quotes: Indifference

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.

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

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I’m often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.