The Perils of Indifference Quotes

What is indifference? Etymologically, the word means "no difference." A strange and unnatural state in which the lines blur between light and darkness, dusk and dawn, crime and punishment, cruelty...

In a way, to be indifferent to that suffering is what makes the human being inhuman. (50)

Though he did not understand their language, their eyes told him what he needed to know—that they, too, would remember, and bear witness. (7)

In the place that I come from, society was composed of three simple categories: the killers, the victims, and the bystanders. (67)