Callousness Quotes

25 quotes by 24 authors

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. — Alexander Berkman
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second… — Albert Einstein
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis… — Alexander Berkman
Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness. — R.K. Narayan
Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair. — John Bowlby
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them.… — Nella Larsen
We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable,… — Steven Pinker
A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans. — Brigid Brophy
Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that their frank… — Judith Martin
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 lurked… — Laurie Garrett
The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised. — Bryant H. McGill
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 needs… — Adrienne Rich
It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would… — Bernhard Schlink
I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it's one… — Margaret Atwood
I wondered why it had to be so poisonous. Oleanders could live through anything, they could stand heat, drought, neglect, and put out thousands of… — Janet Fitch
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end! — H P Lovecraft
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 dropping… — John Fowles

Who Wrote These Callousness Quotes

24 authors contributed a total of 25 Callousness Quotes as follows: