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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key.
Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.
Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development of the arts.
Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally.
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.
She wondered what she thought of herself, and came to the realization that she felt mostly indifference towards her entire life.
I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals' increasing indifference to it.
Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.
We win with facts that are well expressed and frequently communicated; we lose with silence and indifference to the broader social context.
I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.
In Minneapolis, we believe in connection, not alienation. We believe in compassion, not indifference. We believe in love, but we are not timid.
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
London and its people are famed for their incredible indifference to one another, but it's actually a charade that requires some effort to maintain.
Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.
And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.
It is a matter of great indifference to me what criticism is printed in the papers and the magazines. I am simply working out my own ideas in my own way.
Being seen means that your being is held by the other person without comment, without praise or blame or indifference - just with some kind of open care.
I had only one idea before me throughout the trial, i.e. to show complete indifference towards the trial in spite of serious nature of the charges against us.
My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also a form of death.
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.
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.
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.
If it turns out that there are emotions and values that are more numerous and more vibrant than indifference and hatred, things are going to be okay. That depends on us.
I have nothing against rich brothers and sisters. Pray for 'em every day. But callousness and indifference, greed and avarice is something that's shot through all of us.