#indifference

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings. ↗

— Helen Keller

#wrong-direction #science

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

— J. K. Rowling

#dislike #indifference #more #much #neglect

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. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#bottom #design #evil #expect #good

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. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#belongs #body #evil #far #feeling

Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference. ↗

— Carrie P. Meek

#character #communities #cycle #improve #indifference

Everything is pathology, except for indifference. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#except #indifference #pathology

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

— Iris Murdoch

#another #body #human #human body #indifference

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#aloofness #environment #external #indifference #something

The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good. ↗

— Philip Gourevitch

#apathy #auschewitz #evil #genocide #good

She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference. ↗

— Susan Wiggs

#indifference #love #love