Peter Kreeft Quotes

Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

I don't care if your world is ending today because I wasn't invited to it anyway.

The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

How many of us, myself included, have lost our bearings; we are no longer attentive to the world in which we live; we don’t care; we don’t protect what God created for everyone, and we end up unable even to care for one another.

The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys have gone to sleep.

Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.

People dont pay attention until they have to

Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm.

But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power.

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

America is laughing her way to Hell.

Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.

People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.

That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.

You missed World Hist." "Did you get notes for me?" "No. I thought you were dead in a ditch.

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.

I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands, Say, This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can...