indifference

Childhood is surprising. The youth are outraged. Only summer gives us peaceful balance and indifference.

Oleksandr Dovzhenko

You cannot advance a single step till you are in some good measure possessed of this comparative indifference to the favour of men.

—William Wilberforce

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

—Plato

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

—Socrates

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

—Charlie Chaplin

Train yourself to be indifferent to false claims about you. Without such indifference you can’t be free.

—Leo Tolstoy

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

—Franklin D. Roosevelt