I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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.
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.
Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
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.
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.