I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.
We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.
We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?
In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.
It seems clear to me that marriage ought to be constituted by children, and relations not involving children ought to be ignored by the law and treated as indifferent by public opinion. It is only through children that relations cease to be a purely private matter.
Nature is monumentally indifferent.
We can never put enough distance between ourselves and what we love. To think that God is, is still to think of him as present; this is a thought according to our measure, destined only to console us. It is much more fitting to think that God is not, just as we must love him purely enough that we could be indifferent to the fact that he should not be. It is for this reason that the atheist is closer to God than the believer.
I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.
Because we are free, we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.
People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.
The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.
There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.
In a best-selling book, 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs (reprinted nine times by 1935), a pair of consumer-advocate authors complained that American citizens had become test animals for chemical industries that were indifferent to their customers' well-being. The government, they added bitterly, was complicit.
Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death.
Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.
I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious.
We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences
All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.
INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.