#indifference

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. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#great ones #indicates #indifference #inversion #matters

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority. ↗

— James Reston

#indifference #majority #politics

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

— Jack Kerouac

#fault #indifference #moderation #then

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#bottom #enmity #indifference #lies #strangers

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love. ↗

— August Strindberg

#fatal #hated #hatred #her #i

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#believe #create #deeds #devils #evil

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#beings #care #children #human #human beings

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. ↗

— Bess Myerson

#corruption #crime #frequently #indifference #our

— Even now, I can see the World wheeling on its axis . . . I shout at it: —                             CEASE. CHANGE, —                                                                           OR CEASE. The World says right back: — I must chop down the Tree of Life to make coffins . . . ↗

— Frank Bidart

#death #life #mutability #stasis #change