Quotes About Neglect

crooked police, cruel soldiers, and a government indifferent to the plight of most citizens.

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

I can only conclude that worse than hunger or thirst, worse than being unemployed, unhappy in love or defeated and in despair, far worse than any of all those things, is feeling that no one, absolutely no one, cares about us.

Crime begins in poverty; poverty in insufficiency of food; insufficiency in neglect of tilling of the soil. Without such tilling, man has no tie to bind him to the soil. Without such a tie he readily leaves his birthplace and his home. Then he is like the birds of the air or the beasts of the field. Neither battlemented cities nor deep moats, nor harsh laws, nor cruel punishments, can subdue this roving spirit that is strong within him.

An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.

The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized, forgotten, invisible and impossible to tell.

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

Neglect your art for one day and it will neglect you for two!

Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.

The heart of [J.G.] Ballard's vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time.

God gave you the art to talk and you will just ignore it like these?

Yeah. Maybe," Lily said, but she was obviously upset about it. She felt forgotten by them all.

Our eyes were on the Other-world, the stars, the gods. We didn't keep watch on the world around us. And when we eventually lowered our heads and studied the waters closer to home, it was too late.

There was nowhere to sit except the bunk, which was covered with rotting food, and a wooden stool, upon which sat a large fur-covered lump—an old cheese, perhaps, or a dead cat.

Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.

Justice. It wasn't about the greater good. It was about what was right and wrong on an individual basis. Person by person. Because if you neglected the people, the idea of a greater good was a pipe dream created by those whose idea of the "greater good" almost always tended to favor themselves and people like them.

It's not good to leave things of value behind. They nag at the mind and dis-tract one from the business at hand.

I can endure poverty but not shame-neglect but not insult,and insult from you..

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect My love should kindle to inflamed respect.

Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.

Though it is a painful fact that most Negroes are hopelessly docile, many of them are filled with fury, and the unctuous coating of flattery which surrounds and encases that fury is but a form of self-preservation.

It is not known which of the three chiefs first conceived the master-plan by which the peace of the world is now so well defended that national armaments are falling into increasing neglect.