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. . . [QUOTES FOLLOW LINKS] see: APATHY DECISIONS (ON) DOING NOTHING EMOTIONS & FEELINGS IMPARTIALITY INACTION MIDDLE (IN THE) NEGLECT NEUTALITY SILENCE --- Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low. --Henry Ward Beecher (18131887) American Congregational minister; brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher. _Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit_ [1887], as quoted in Anna Lydia Ward (ed.) _A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose_ [1889]. We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians. --Nicolai A. Berdyaev (18741948) Russian philosopher. _Truth and Revelation_ [1953] There is nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! a friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body! --Fanny Burney (17521840) English novelist and diarist. _Camilla_ [1796] If the misery of others leaves you indifferent and with no feeling of sorrow, then you cannot be called a human being. --Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) American Democratic statesman, President [19771981]. _Keeping Faith_ [1982] How many times can a man turn his head, Pretending he just doesn't see? --Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941) American singer and songwriter. "Blowin' in the Wind" [1962 song] The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. --attributed to Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist. The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you. --Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919) American Beat poet and publisher. "Pictures of the Gone World" [1955] in _A Coney Island of the Mind_ [1958]. Mrs. Hardcastle: See me, how calm I am. Miss Neville: Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others. --Oliver Goldsmith (17281774) Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist. _She Stoops to Conquer_, III, i [1773 play] 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. --Haile Selassie I [Tafari Makonnen] (18921975) Emperor of Ethiopia [19301974]. In an address to the General Assembly, United Nations, N.Y.C.. The least pain in our little finger gives more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings. --William Hazlitt (17781830) English essayist. "American LiteratureDr. Channing" in _The Edinburgh Review_ [October 1829]. He who does not weep does not see. --Victor Hugo (18021885) French poet, dramatist, and novelist. _Les Misιrables_ [1862] Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all the apathy of human beings. --Helen Keller (18801968) American author and educator who was blind and deaf. _My Religion_ [1927] Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all. --Johann Kaspar Lavater (17411801) Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics. Quoted in _The Pocket Magazine of Classics and Polite Literature_, vol. 2 [1818]. The tragedy of love is indifference. --W. Somerset Maugham (18741965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. _The Trembling of a Leaf_ [1921] As long as human beings can sit and watch with hands folded while their fellow men are tortured and butchered, so long will civilization be a hollow mockery, a wordy phantom suspended like a mirage above a swelling sea of murdered carcasses. --Henry Miller (18911980) American novelist and essayist. _The Colossus of Maroussi_, ch. 2 [1941] I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't. ... My dear, I don't give a damn. --Margaret Mitchell (19001949) American novelist. _Gone with the WInd_ [1936] (1939 screen version: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!") 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 Niemφller (18921984) German theologian. In "Congressional Record" [14 October 1968, p. 31636]. All politics are based on the indifference of the majority. --James Barrett "Scotty" Reston (19091995) Scottish-born American journalist; two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for reporting. Quoted in Michael Rogers _Political Quotes_, p. 11 [1982]. People really care about nothing that does not affect them personally. --Arthur Schopenhauer (17881860) German philosopher. "Counsels and Maxims" in _Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer_, tr. T. Bailey Saunders [1889]. 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 (18561950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] _The Devil's Disciple_, act II [1897] One wants to be loved; failing this, to be admired; failing this, to be feared; failing even this, to be hated and despised. One wants to arouse some sort of feeling in people. The soul shrinks from the void and wants contact at any price. --Hjalmar Sφderberg (18691941) Swedish novelist and playwright. _Doctor Glas_ [1905] - I did not hate them; I was indiffernt to them. My crime was far worse because I was *not* an anti-Semite. .... My conscience was progressively callused and blunted. Of course, one's conscience does not just cease to exist overnight; it is slowly eroded over the years, eaten away day by day, anesthetized by a multiplicity of little crimes. ... As the Nazis environment enveloped us, its evils grew invisible because we were part of them. --Albert Speer (19051981) First architect of the Third Reich. Eric Norden interview _Playboy_ [June 1971]. - 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. --Eliezer [Elie] Wiesel (b. 1928) Romanian Jew and Holocaust survivor; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. In "U.S. News and World Report" [27 October 1986]. There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent. --Eliezer [Elie] Wiesel (b. 1928) Romanian Jew and Holocaust survivor; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. In a speech at the North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte, N.C. [12 March 1997]. How can I criticize those who were indifferent to Jewish suffering during the Shoah if I do nothing when confronted with the suffering of innocent people today? We Jews suffered not only from the cruelty of killers, but also from the indifference of bystanders. I believe that a person who is indifferent to the suffering of others is complicit in the crime. And that I cannot allow, at least not for myself. --Eliezer [Elie] Wiesel (b. 1928) Romanian Jew and Holocaust survivor; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Quoted in Aron Hirt-Manheimer _Against Indifference: A Conversation with Elie Wiesel_ [2005]. - ----- blasι (adj.) [blah-'zey] Sophisticatedly indifferent; superciliously casual in one's attitude, especially toward exciting things. insouciant [in-SOO-see-uhnt], adjective: Marked by lighthearted unconcern or indifference; carefree; nonchalant. nonchalant (adj.) [non-shuh-'lahnt] Indifferent or aloof, unconcerned, cool or casual. perfunctory [pur-FUNGK-tuh-ree], adjective: 1. Done merely to carry out a duty; performed mechanically or routinely. 2. Lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; indifferent.  . . see: "HASTE" see: "MISTAKES" see: "PRUDENCE" An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures, indifferently, both friends and foes. --Joseph Addison (16721719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. _The Spectator_ [pub. 17111712 & 1714] "27 March 1711" Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man: to speak much and know little; to spend much and have little; to presume much and be worth little. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 258 [15th ed. 1894]. A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused and laugh at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ "25 March 1776" [1791]. Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable. --Jean de La Bruyθre (16451696) French essayist and moralist. _Les Caractθres_ [1688] "De l'Homme" . . [QUOTES FOLLOW LINKS] see: ALONE BE YOURSELF DIFFERENT HUMAN RACE INDEPENDENCE KNOWING (ONESELF) LONELINESS, LONERS MINORITY NONCONFORMITY POPULARITY SELF, SELF-ESTEEM STANDING ALONE UNIQUE - Nature made him, and then broke the mold. --Ludovico Ariosto (14741533) Italian poet. _Orlando Furioso_ [1532], Canto X, Stanza 84 Voyage upon life's sea, To yourself be true, And, whatever your lot may be, Paddle your own Canoe. --Sarah Tittle Bolton in Harper's Magazine [May 1854], in _Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable_. I believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I further believe that the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level. --William F. Buckley Jr. (19252008) American author and journalist. "God and Man at Yale" [1951] The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. --attributed to Coco Chanel (18831971) French fashion designer. To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. --E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (18941962) American poet. _A Miscellany_ [1958] Where the way is hardest, there go thou: Follow your own path, and let people talk. --Dante Alighieri (12651321) Italian poet, literary theorist, and moral philosopher. _The Divine Comedy_ [c. 1310-1321], "Purgatory" A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. --Charles Dickens (18121870) English novelist. _A Tale of Two Cities_, bk. I, ch. 3 [1859] - Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual. --Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. In a statement in England [15 September 1933]. I feel ill at ease with that little word 'We.' No man is at one with another, you see. Behind all agreement lies something amiss. All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss. --Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist. Quoted in _The New Yorker_, p. 93 [20 June 1994]. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. --Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. In Abraham Pais _Einstein Lived Here_. p. 219 [1994]. - Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; society will retaliate. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. "The Transcendentalist" lecture at the Boston Masonic Temple [December 1840]. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _Essays_, First Series [1841] "Self-Reliance" Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. --attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. - *No man*, proclaimed Donne, *is an island*, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, *made into an island*) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really *looked* at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique. --Neil Gaiman (b. 1960) English science fiction author. _American Gods_ [2001] - Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone. --Mohandas K. Gandhi (18691948) Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic movement against British rule. _Young India_ [17 June 1926] I look upon an increase of the power of the State with the greatest fear, because although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality, which lies at the root of all progress. We know of so many cases where men have adopted trusteeship, but none where the State has really lived for the poor. --Mohandas K. Gandhi (18691948) Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic movement against British rule. Interview to Nirmal Kumar Bose in _The Hindustan Times_ [17 October 1935]. - There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone. --Ellen Glasgow (18731945) American novelist. _The Shadowy Third_ [1923] I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion. --Lillian Hellman (19051984) American dramatist. In a letter to the House Committee on Un-American Activities [19 May 1952]. The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. --attributed to Napoleon Hill (18831970) American journalist, lawyer, and author of self-help books. It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole ... that above all the unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual. ... The greater the readiness to subordinate purely personal interests, the higher rises the ability to establish comprehensive communities ... This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture ... we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow man. --Adolf Hitler (18891945) German dictator. Speech [7 October 1933]. Some trees grow very tall and straight and large in the forest close to each other, but some must stand by themselves or they won't grow at all. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894) American physician, poet, and essayist. In John Torey _Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes_ [1896]. It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658 BC) Roman poet. "Ars Poetica", l.128 The thing is, you see, that the strongest man in the world is the man who stands most alone. --Henrik Ibsen (18281906) Norwegian playwright. _An Enemy of the People_ [1882] It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. --Robert Green Ingersoll (18331899) American politician and orator known as "The Great Agnostic." _Individuality_ [1873] The nail that sticks up will be hammered down. --Japanese Proverb He who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. "The Rambler" (English journal), Number 6 [7 April 1750] Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all. --Nikita Khrushchev (18941971) Soviet statesman, Premier [19581964]. Speech to Twentieth Congress of Communist Party [25 February 1956]. Oh, cursed be that arrogant satisfaction in standing alone. --Sφren Kierkegaard (18131855) Danish philosopher. _Journal_ [8 May 1838] When all men think alike, no one thinks very much. --Walter Lippmann (18891974) American journalist. In _Speakers Encyclopedia_, NY [1955]. Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. --Katherine Mansfield (18881923) New Zealand writer. "Journal" [14 October 1922] Democratic man, as I have remarked, is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or shake with fear and loneliness and the group, of course, must have its leaders. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _Notes on Democracy_, p. 202 [1926] - There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations; they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate whom they are accustomed to look down upon. --John Stuart Mill (18061873) English philosopher and social reformer. _On Liberty_, ch. 3 [1859] Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. --John Stuart Mill (18061873) English philosopher and social reformer. _On Liberty_, ch. 3 [1859] The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself. --John Stuart Mill (18061873) English philosopher and social reformer. _On Liberty_, ch. 5 [1859] - Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of a unanimity. --Christopher Morley (18901957) American journalist, novelist, and poet. Quoted in "American Artist" [1949]. How glorious it is and also how painful to be an exception. --Alfred de Musset (18101857) French poet, dramatist, and author. _Story of the White Blackbird_ (Histoire d'un merle blanc) [1842] - Deep down every human being well knows that he is in the world only one time, unique, and that no such strange chance will throw together a second time such a wonderfully many-colored assortment into a unity such as he is: he knows it, but conceals it like a bad conscience. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. _Schopenhauer as Educator_ [1874] The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. _The Dawn_ [1881] The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. --attributed to Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. - I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, And if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful; If not, it can't be helped. --Fritz Perls (18931970) German-born American psychiatrist. "Gestalt Therapy Verbatim" [1969] "You're not one of us." "I don't think I'm one of them, either," said Brutha. "I'm one of mine." --Terry Pratchett (b. 1948) English science fiction writer. _Small Gods_ [1992] The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens into stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages. --Equality 7-2521, the hero in Ayn Rand's _Anthem_, 1937 Ch. XI My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so. --Marquis de Sade (Donatien Alphonse Franηois, Comte de Sade) (17401814) French aristocrat and writer of pornography. Letter to his wife [1783]. If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. --Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (19172007) American historian. "The Decline of Greatness" in _Saturday Evening Post_ [1 November 1958]. Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. --Dame Edith Sitwell (18871964) British poet and critic. _Taken Care Of: The Autobiography of Edith Sitwell_, ch. I [1965] We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as the lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the stream of consciousness that we call "I" is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd. --Anna Louise Strong (18851970) American journalist. _I Change Worlds_ [1935] Why every one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow. --Jonathan Swift (16671745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. _A Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious Conversation_ [1738] The flower which is single, need not envy the thorns that are numerous. --Rabindranath Tagore (18611941) Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, and painter who won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature. _Fireflies_ [1928] - If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. --Henry David Thoreau (18171862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. _Walden_ [1854] "Conclusion" Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. --Henry David Thoreau (18171862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. _Walden_ [1854] - Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catchphrases of politicians. Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let man label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country hold up your head! You have nothing to be ashamed of. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. "Passage from 'Glances at History' (suppressed)" Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those opening a new road. --Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. Quoted in Ben Ray Redman (ed.) _The Portable Voltaire_ [1949]. If you stand up and are counted, you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. --Thomas Watson, Jr. (19141993) President of IBM from 1952 to 1971. Quoted in "Reader's Digest" [1991]. Avoid the reeking herd, Shun the polluted flock, Live like that stoic bird The eagle of the rock. --Elinor Wylie (18851928) American poet and novelist. 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