Quotes About Insensitivity

Our insensitivity as self-betrayers is best described not as attending to ourselves rather than to others, but rather as attending to others for our sake rather than for their sake.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Desarrollar la frase: así como aun los actos más ruines y vergonzosos requieren de cierta inteligencia y cierto talento, así también los actos más grandiosos requieren de una cierta insensibilidad que en otras circunstancias se llama estupidez.

I am sorry, said Monty. I cannot respond to you in any way. I am just not sufficiently interested in anything you have to say.

If this country wants to elect someone with no political experience who is racially insensitive and golfs... In my first 100 days, I will make Taco Tuesday the law.

In addition, there seems to be curious evidence of a link between leadership and a form of psychopathology (the sociopath) that encourages the nonblinking, self-confident, insensitive person to rally followers.

another thought, far more revolutionary: "Maybe they just don't care!

As a species, we're either very resilient or super callous. I don't know which.

And few can deny that welfarism, taken to extremes, carries a whiff of do as you're told!: there were moments in postwar Scandinavia when the enthusiasm for eugenics and social efficiency suggested not just a certain insensitivity to recent history but also to the natural human desire for autonomy and independence.

People think [psychopaths] are just callous and without fear,' he says. 'But there is definitely something more going on. When emotions are their primary focus, we've seen that psychopathic individuals show a normal [emotional] response. But when focused on something else, they become insensitive to emotions entirely.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.

Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

The Universe is blind to our sorrows and indifferent to our pains. Have a nice day!

When one woman found out I had multiple sclerosis, she said to me, 'My heart bleeds for you.' I said to her, 'Well, my heart bleeds for you, because you're an idiot.'

The brief answer is that I have become inured without becoming indifferent.

A strange plight for art lovers, who trained themselves to be receptive and then didn't dare use their faculties except upon imaginary things! Divide your mind in half, and build an emotion-tight compartment between the two; be sensitive to art and insensitive to life; learn to follow the example of that Russian countess who wept for the woes of the tenor in the opera while her coachman froze to death on the box outside!

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn about anyone else

I don't think you feel much of anything anymore.

Don 't put mediocrity, insensitivity and tradition before sound reason and compassion.

tüm s?radan ac?lara kar?? duyars?zlaÅŸt?.

People are just so insensitive because they're ignorant; they don't understand, so they're scared of what they're ignorant of.

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!