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• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

  Elie Wiesel

  Topics in Power, Suffering

  Tags in Indifference, Injustice, Silence, Courage, War
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  I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what i cannot do interfere with what i can do.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Topics in Commitment, Service

  Tags in Limitations, Indifference, Responsibility, Purpose, Creed, Credo, Action

• We censure one for being indiscreet, but not for having something to be indiscreet about.

  Shraga Silverstein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Indifference

• Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.

  Ed Royce

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Indifference

• The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.
  The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference.
  The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference.
  And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Topics in Death, Inspirational, Life, Love

  Tags in Hatred, Indifference

• Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

  Iris Murdoch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Indifference, Confused, Better

• The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.

  Iris Murdoch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Indifference, Mysteries, Human

• The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.

  Frances O'Grady

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Indifference, Greatest, Important

• Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

  Stephen Evans

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Indifference

• No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Expression, Indifference

• There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Indifference

• Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

  Samuel Richardson

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Indifference

• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Connections, Indifference, Injustice, Destiny

• It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment

  Elie Wiesel

  Topics in Dissent, Politics, Power

  Tags in Apathy, Government, Indifference, Despair

• When Hitler attacked the Jews I was not a Jew, therefore I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church — and there was nobody left to be concerned.

  Martin Niemoller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solidarity, Indifference, Silence, Conscience

• First they came for the Jews. I was silent. I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists. I was silent. I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists. I was silent. I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me. There was no one left to speak for me.

  Martin Niemoller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solidarity, Indifference, Silence, Conscience

• In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.

  Martin Niemoller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solidarity, Indifference, Silence, Conscience

• It’s important that I make a difference in some way. It’s not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

  Clay Aiken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Indifference, Necessarily, Important

• The golf links lie so near the mill
  That almost every day
  The laboring children can look out
  And see the men at play.

  Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn

  Topics in Children, Work

  Tags in Indifference, Injustice

• Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Indifference, Behavior