J. K. Rowling Quotes

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

... the fires of neglect.

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

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.

Dumbledore paused, and although his voice remained light and calm, and he gave no obvious sign of anger, Harry felt a kind of chill emanating from him and noticed that the Dursleys drew very slightly closer together. “You did not do as I asked. You have never treated Harry as a son. He has known nothing but neglect and often cruelty at your hands. The best that can be said is that he has at least escaped the appalling damage you have inflicted upon the unfortunate boy sitting between you.

My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.

The ultimate crime is not to care.

You can't stamp on people and not get hurt in return.

Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.

Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.

I couldn't give a rat's tutu about your emotional distress

Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.

When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.

I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.

Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.

Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.

Fire is always ready to burn the hand it warms.

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.

By being inattentive to the needs of others, inevitably we end up harming them.

We should hold abusers — and no one else — responsible for the damage they inflict.

If you break someone's leg, shouldn't you have to be the crutch for a while?