It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“...when you look at the stars, you should tremble - only dullards have become callous to this frisson ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
I wondered why it had to be so poisonous. Oleanders could live through anything, they could stand heat, drought, neglect, and put… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
“She leaned back in her chair and raised her face to the sun, mildly intoxicated, not so much by the wine as… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. She stamped her… — Mette Ivie Harrison Copy Share Image
“Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I have no other pictures of the world apart from those which express evanescence, and callousness, vanity and anger, emptiness, orhideous useless… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“The callousness that had saved me so often had destroyed me too.” — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair. — John Bowlby Copy Share Image
The sort of seeing cruelty and callousness of that sort from young people is heartbreaking. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You'll continue to be a bitch no matter what, but I'm glad you aren't a callous, self-absorbed one. — Genna Rulon Copy Share Image
Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Murray regarded all hardship as a test of character. To surrender to callousness or despair in the face of such sorrow was… — Steven-Elliot Altman Copy Share Image
In the bible homosexuality is condemned, but along with divorce and greed and callousness toward poor people. So its elevation to a… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s a whole lot less about focusing on the fact that we’re all victims and a whole lot more about the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
That callousness that comes from feeling like you have to survive on your own - I really empathized with that. — Jodie Turner-Smith Copy Share Image
I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image