Elie Wiesel Quotes

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.

It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.

I don't think the biggest crime is to not sympathize with people. I think the biggest crime is to not be interested.

I'm realizing that a lot of people don't really care what happens to other people as long as it doesn't affect them.

When you stop caring about something, then other people have to decide whether or not they genuinely care about you, or not.

It's hard for me to answer a question from someone who really doesn't care about the answer.

Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation fed by a subtle fear of the heart. We pull back, believing that what happens to others is not our concern. Our courage leaves us. Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

What you've got is 30,000 people calling you an asshole.- Stone Cold Steve Austin What I've got is 30,000 people I couldn't care less if they lived or died.

Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.

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.

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

People have a huge desire to be listened to, for politicians to take the time to understand their problems.

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.

These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

I have no love for those who consider themselves 'good people' but stand idly by as the world crumbles around them. It's not enough to personally not do damage. If you're present as someone else destroys what's around you and you do nothing, you helped them.

We all have a social responsibility and have to be mindful of what we do and say.

A person has already made the effort once they open a paper or turn on the news. They want to know what's going on in the world around them. That, in itself, shows they care. But the problem is, most people say, 'That's terrible,' and then move on. Because they find it too difficult to look at.

Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else's responsibility and not our own.