Indifference

(124 votes)   I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(112 votes)   Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(104 votes)   Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
1767-1835, German Statesman, Philologist

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(90 votes)   It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

Pablo Picasso
1881-1973, Spanish Artist

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(89 votes)   The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(85 votes)   The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(84 votes)   Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

Elie Wiesel
1928-, Rumanian-born American Writer

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