Indifference?

My apathy for voting comes from my distaste for politics.

Indifference is a double edged weapon.

Your coldness and your indifference are unbearable.

They congratulated themselves on their stiff upper lips.

Such indifference is more dangerous than anger and hatred.

Can indifference ever be a virtue?

In this context, the US s inexplicable indifference towards the region is both naïve and dangerous.

Some in Europe, especially in Germany, seem nonchalant about a Greek exit from the eurozone.

There is no connection to action, and a huge indifference to the consequences.

Indeed, for some political leaders, indifference is seductive.

At one moment she was horrified at this indifference, and the next moment rejoiced at that which caused her indifference.

Others suggest that Putin s aloofness stems from Kremlin infighting.

Indifference and dependency can kill single individuals and entire nations alike.

Not only my Government, but the Croatian people, view that indifference with serious concern.

In Society, now particularly occupied with something else, absolute indifference reigned.

Only by doing so can we ensure that tolerance never encourages criminals.

In our country, in our communities, indifference is a growing reality.

Being excluded made young people passive and indifferent and diminished their confidence in the formal decision making process many reacted by turning to violence or crime.

The saddest part of the story is Israel s utter indifference to the need to build international legitimacy for its drive to stop Iran s nuclear program. Netanyahu thinks in bold military terms, not in terms of geopolitical strategy.

The saddest part of the story is Israel s utter indifference to the need to build international legitimacy for its drive to stop Iran s nuclear program.

But Japan s political system is unlikely to remain a matter of popular indifference for much longer.

Then as soon as they began to talk he shut his eyes and expressed weariness, indifference, and disgust.

In an interview with Global Voices, Camila revealed that this is what left her most indignant.

Hesitation or indifference with regard to that human tragedy only encouraged the continuation of the crime of ethnic purging.

Indifference, by contrast, is never creative, for it means that no response to injustice, and no help for the suffering, will ever come.

Secondly, the subject of youth and civil society was the focus of most of the debate, demonstrating that there is no link between young people and apathy.

Meantime she went on living under the conditions of her old life and was horrified at herself, at her utter and unconquerable indifference to all her past, the things, habits, and people who had loved and still loved her, to her mother who was hurt by her indifference, to her dear, affectionate father whom she had previously loved more than anyone else on earth.

There are still Euro enthusiasts, but among the peoples of Europe indifference and, in some places, mild hostility, prevails.

Indifference, by contrast, is never creative, for it means that no response to injustice, and no help for the suffering, will ever come.

But then there is the non stressed, attuned, non distracted attention of the parent that every child needs . that very often children don't get.

The continuing tragedy of the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has resulted in the death of thousands of innocent civilians and the displacement of a large portion of its citizens, would not have occurred were it not for the apparent indifference of the international community.

It taught, as Elie Wiesel has said, that indifference to human suffering is not only a sin, it is a punishment, and that by denying the other's humanity we betray our own.

The failure to investigate reports on violence, some implicating leading Government ministers in political assassinations, suggests more than indifference on the part of the Government.

As in the late 19 th century, we have the spectacle of the world's superpower treating indifference as a sign of seriousness!

It is official indifference, however, that is truly unpardonable, perhaps because indifferent officials never feel the guilt of which Levi wrote.

With that vote, the international community began to eradicate the shameful indifference that accompanied the Holocaust, Rwanda, Srebrenica, Darfur, and too many similar catastrophes.

But she had always had a very small appetite, and she looked with something more than indifference at the first plate Martha set before her.

In Karenin's soul, however, despite the complete and contemptuous indifference he thought he felt for his wife, there was one feeling left with regard to her an objection to her being in a position to unite unhindered with Vronsky, so making her crime advantageous to her.

Thanks to its massive North Sea oil reserves, the country has achieved a level of wealth unimaginable only a generation ago and which has allowed it to cold shoulder the European Union since 1994.

But, even then, it can never be justified fully, and the nameless, nagging guilt of which Primo Levi wrote so movingly invariably follows.

His indifference to everything was much too great for him to lie on his back and scour himself on the carpet, as he often had done earlier during the day.

It is the tool of governments that are, in fact, the enemy of their people, for it benefits only the ruler never the victim, whose pain is magnified by neglect. Political prisoners, hungry children, the homeless Chernobyl refugees, or the irradiated workers in need of a lifetime of medical help to dismiss their plight, to refuse to offer some spark of hope, is to exile them to a netherworld of helplessness.

But, even then, it can never be justified fully, and the nameless, nagging guilt of which Primo Levi wrote so movingly invariably follows.

It is the tool of governments that are, in fact, the enemy of their people, for it benefits only the ruler never the victim, whose pain is magnified by neglect.