#indifference

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#change #generations #good-people #indifference #repentance

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#desire #indifference #life #death

Ice is for death and endings. ↗

— Guy Gavriel Kay

#disrespect #indifference #death

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#suicide #dreams

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent. ↗

— Sergei Lukyanenko

#difficult #faith #hard #indifference #faith

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#life #the-world #life

A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too many chances to endure for long. Could anything postpone for a while the hour of its ruin, it would be precisely the extreme instability of the opinions of crowds and their growing indifference and lack of respect for all general beliefs. ↗

— Gustave Le Bon

#crowds #decline #indifference #the-masses #respect

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

As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#conscience #distortions #ensure #future #future generations