Callous Quotes

65 quotes by 60 authors

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier… — Charlotte Bronte
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have suffered not only… — Cesar Chavez
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in… — Charles Caleb Colton
Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be… — Richard Dawkins
And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think I'm callous, arrogant. I didn't like the media… — Eric Dickerson
...their callous indifference to the plight of children streaming across the border, fleeing horrific circumstances in their own country. Republicans are simply strangled by extremism.… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin,… — Rabindranath Tagore
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are… — John Berger
I don't want to sound callous. I mean, even if I have nothing to offer, that doesn't matter, because that still doesn't mean that what… — Richard Dawkins
The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are… — Gloria Steinem
. . . As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot remain… — Nathaniel Altman
England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their… — Colin MacInnes
The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. Its a callous political game. — Rob Bishop
Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered… — Camille Paglia
As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous. — Dennis Potter
There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people through vicious and… — Wayne LaPierre
There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids' true interests. For their part,… — Amy Chua
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and… — Unknown Author
In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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