Quotes About Insensitivity

The old 'qualities' of masculinity - a narrow focus on life, domestic incompetence signalling a mind on higher things, emotional reserve and acts of endurance - have become absurdities, signs more of incompetence, insensitivity, lack of intelligence than of strength.

There are people like that, people who don't beat themselves up, don't take every little injustice personally. Those people, same callous fuckers that walk past a legless guy without a pause, those are the ones who win.

But nothing was worse than nothing, and that was the sum total of indifference.

so many issues and problems in a male dominated world derive from the aggressive, secretive and often insensitive masculine ego.

I hope I haven't hurt your feelings,' he said. 'I don't have feelings, at least not the inconvenient ones.

Dünyada hâlâ bir de?er ta??yan topu topu birkaç ?ey hakk?nda hiçbir anlay?? ve duyarl?l??a sahip olmayan insanlar?n bulunmas? beni ç?ld?rtacak, Wilhelm.

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.

I only enjoy what I can see, because I don't feel anything. For example, your new wallpaper. I like it and it can stay, it's quiet and it keeps quiet at least. Luckily I don't have to feel it, just see it.

The patience period of a person should not prolong so much because of insensitive people that s/he oneself becomes patient.

Disseram que eu fora insensível; que manifestara um sentimento muito próximo da indiferença e do desdém. Ah!, como as pessoas não entendem nada das pessoas.

You know, you have a lot of people - I've met a lot of people in the past, I've gone to private schools, you know, encountered different people who think that it's OK to make comments, insensitive comments about your race because they're joking. And think that if they're joking and they say it, you know, good-naturedly, that things will fly.

I've been astonished, time and again, at such rudeness and most of all … at such stupidity (Mrs. van Daan).

she hated the streak of cruelty she knew in him, the arrogance, the frequent insensitivity. And he was a fool where judgment of character was concerned. He could no more read a woman's wiles than a dog could read Spanish! He was consistently attracted to the very last sort of woman who could ever make him happy.

It's years since I've been shocked

There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy condemns us to a corresponding stupidity.

I personally find it difficult to accept that there could be anyone on earth insensitive to the comic abilities of Laurel and Hardy, Sid Caesar, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, or Martin Short. But no matter who the comic entertainer is, there is always at least a minority prepared to say, 'What's all the excitement about? He doesn't seem funny to me.'

At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil.

then they will not care a fart for us.

It is the novelist's duty to attack society, for its false complacency, for its repressive rigidity, and for its self-righteous insensitivity. Society is women. Therefore, the novelist must attack and punish women in his works.

Men were so obtuse about things they didn't want to think about.

But why bother? So cold. A woman's life dismissed in three words.

Unfortunately, magnanimity is often seen as weakness by those on the receiving end. It's easy to be sensitive, tolerant, and multicultural--it's the default mode of the age---yet, when you persist in being sensitive to the insensitive, tolerant of the intolerant, and impeccably multicultural about the avowedly unicultural, don't be surprised if they take it for weakness.

As for your sister, don't talk to me about her. I don't care two straws about your sister. You must excuse me, Major Grantly, but Lady Hartletop is really too big for my powers of vision.