Indifferent

Famous quotes containing the word indifferent:

    The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
    Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)

    All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    Men’s hearts are cold. They are indifferent. Not all the coal that is dug warms the world. It remains indifferent to the lives of those who risk their life and health down in the blackness of the earth; who crawl through dark, choking crevices with only a bit of lamp on their caps to light their silent way; whose backs are bent with toil, whose very bones ache, whose happiness is sleep, and whose peace is death.
    Mother Jones (1830–1930)