I hate optimism out of insensitivity.

“Call it insensitivity or a passion for remorse, I have never undertaken to rescue what little Absolute this world contains.”

— Emil M. Cioran

Insensitivity makes arrogance ugly; empathy is what makes humility beautiful.

— Renford Reese

“You’re too sensitive’ victims of sexual abuse are told over and over by those whose reality depends on being insensitive. Most adults who have…

— Renee Fredrickson

“The insensitivity of the military mind is the result of fearing the worst and acting on the basis of worst case scenarios. It is…

— Rikhi Jaipal

“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political and social…

— Michael Salter

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

— Madame de Stael

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

— Ann Landers

Sometimes, people around you are just plain insensitive. And sometimes, you just have to tolerate them. But sometimes, you just can't anymore.

— Lucila Navarro

A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible…

— Ellen Glasgow

Do people on food stamps actually need more movies to watch? Well, I'm probably treading dangerously close to the line of insensitivity, right?

— Rush Limbaugh

Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past…

— Honore de Balzac

The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear…

— Kenneth Clark

“Everyone is always busy, not until it is something that benefits them, or that which concerns whom they love.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

People who cannot feel punish those who do.

— May Sarton

“Relatedness is vital in a time when so many people suffer from social deafness. Emotional insensitivity being caused by a redoubtable “tin ear” makes…

— Erik Pevernagie