Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and…

An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply…

— Kalle Lasn

It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection…

— Bernhard Schlink

“Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to…

— Richard Adams

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

— Anonymous

One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused…

— Thomas Sowell

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that…

— Alexander Berkman

“...when you look at the stars, you should tremble - only dullards have become callous to this frisson ...”

— John Geddes

It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of…

— John Fowles

Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to…

— Richard Adams

An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.

— Eric Maisel

Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had…

— Laurie Garrett

“A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. She stamped her little foot…

— Mette Ivie Harrison

“the extent of his callousness shook him.”

— Kristen Ashley

Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that their…

— Judith Martin

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life…

— Adrienne Rich