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In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

- Arthur E. Morgan

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

- Juan Montalvo

Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water, like Pilate.

- Graham Greene

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

- Rollo May

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

- George Eliot

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- Dante

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

- Montaigne

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to he who does not concern us at all.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Most of us have no real loves and no real hatreds. Blessed is love, less blessed is hatred, but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other.

- Mark Rutherford

The only menace is inertia.

- St. John Perse

Tolerance is a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbours of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

- Sir James Goldsmith

The true opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Hate, bad as it is, at least treats the neighbour as a thou, whereas indifference turns the neighbour into an it, a thing. This is why we may say that there is actually one thing worse than evil itself and that is indifference to evil. In human relations the nadir of morality, the lowest point as far as Christian ethics is concerned, is manifest in the phrase, T couldn't care less.'

- Joseph Fletcher

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

- G. C. Lichtenberg

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.

- Bliss Carman