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Letter "I" » indifference
«Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.»
Author: Haile Selassie
(Emperor, Statesman)
| About:
Actors and acting,
History
| Keywords:
acted, inaction, indifference, mattered, The Silence, The Voice, throughout, triumph
«We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
| Keywords:
accustom, accustomed, assume, believed, code, coded, coding, contempt, crack, endlessly, expecting, honor, indifference, inherent, in a higher place, places, political, Politicians, scandals, statements, The Code, The Statement, to a higher place
«To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
believing, correct, indifference, misery, natural history, placed
«Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
at ease, ease, ill at ease, indifference, tenderness, vanity
«Tolerance is another word for indifference.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Tolerance,
Writing
| Keywords:
indifference, tolerance
«Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
indifference, journeys, traveling
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