Pastoral Resources

Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.

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.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

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

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.