#indifference

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#close #cop #department #field #got

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. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#age #ageing #anxiety #communicates #culture

The most destructive criticism is indifference. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#destructive #indifference #most

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. ↗

— Karel Capek

#contrary #decrees #hear #indifference #necessary

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#believe #cruelty #fact #human #human suffering

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#appetite #apprenticeship #check #enough #first

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#confused #indifference #misguided #moral #passion

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

Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il. ↗

— Ed Royce

#bush #bush administration #end #indifference #kim

But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#love