Social Indifference Quotes

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

We pass people in the street and ignore them when they're clearly suffering. It makes you wish we could all feel when someone needs something.

Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of a stream, catches a glimpse in the water of a white face or a moving limb and turns quickly away, refusing to help or to search for help. We all see the faces in the water. We smother our memory of them, even our belief in their reality, and become calm people of the world; or we can neither forget or help them. Sometimes by a trick of circumstances or dream or a hostile neighborhood of light we see our own face.

Our children are our signature to the roster of history; our land is merely the place our money was made. There is as yet no social stigma in the possession of a gullied farm, a wrecked forest, or a polluted stream, provided the dividends suffice to send the youngsters to college. Whatever ails the land, the government will fix it.

I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

I've never concerned myself with the issues. I'm a political mechanic.

One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place of mental processes and revolts, crimes, despairs pass off in a dribble of vague words and rubber stamp phrases without leaving a scratch on the mind of the driven instalment-paying, subway-packing mass.

I really don't care what people think of me. I've got my family. I've got my friends. Yes, I have been trained to be a little more aggressive if I need to be, but I don't go around thumping people.

People try not to think about what's going on in sub-Saharan Africa. They edit it out of their daily lives. Especially Americans. We prefer a fantasy version of Africa.

Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

Freedom of speech only exists in proportion to indifference to the thing spoken of.

Nobody really cares about what other people think anymore; they're all about themselves.

For paranoia about 'what other people think' : remember that only some hate, a very few love - and almost all just don't care.

Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.

People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.

I'm not an idiot; I try not to look, but I see what people say about me on Facebook. I see other things written. But I don't care.

I've wondered what my sexuality might be, but I've never wondered whether it was acceptable or not. Anyway, who really cares whether I'm gay or straight?

I was very introverted. You know, I had my close group of friends, but I really didn't care what the cool kids were doing.

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it