| − | "The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference."
| + | {{cquote|Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor—never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten. The political prisoner in his cell, the hungry children, the homeless refugees—not to respond to their plight, not to relieve their solitude by offering them a spark of hope is to exile them from human memory. And in denying their humanity, we betray our own.|||"The Perils of Indifference," Apr. 12, 1999<ref>Wiesel, Elie (April 12, 1999). [https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ewieselperilsofindifference.html The Perils of Indifference]. ''American Rhetoric''. Retrieved October 8, 2023.</ref>}} |