#indifferent

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#fertile #indifferent #nearly #possessions #possessors

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#death #died #humanity #indifferent #inflict

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#claims #coming #future #hour #indifferent

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#hidden #indifferent #man #nature #reasons

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. ↗

— James Joyce

#artist #behind #beyond #creation #existence

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#assumes #existence #exists #fact #indifferent

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#cognitive #culture #gender #here #idea

Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#condemn #divorce #gay #gay marriage #indifferent

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#courage #culture #different world #faith #generations

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#indifferent #only #own #suffering #thing