Callous Quotes (page 2)

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• feeling
• people
• religious

it being her experience that the religious ecstasy made people callous (so did causes); dulled their feelings Virginia Woolf

• emotional
• war
• knowingly

Listen to the speeches, one after another telling the audience what it already knows, evoking applause with necessary cliches, no longer shocking anybody with the shocking facts of the war because you can become so jaded with horror that you develop an emotional callous. Paul Krassner

• heart touching
• heart
• touching

The callous palms of the labourer are conversant with finer tissues of self-respect and heroism, whose touch thrills the heart, than the languid fingers of idleness. Henry David Thoreau

• thinking
• ignorance
• unfair

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 of their few defenses. They need their callousness, they need their ignorance. They walk in the dark, along the edges of high cliffs, humming to themselves, thinking themselves invulnerable. Margaret Atwood

• humanity
• healing
• people

People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make. Eudora Welty

• people
• enough
• adulting

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous. Dennis Potter

• expectation
• expecting more
• ever

I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known. Sarah Jessica Parker

• true
• hate
• reasonably

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 am a true Russian. Yevgeny Yevtushenko

• old age
• impressive
• age

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 years. Charlotte Bronte

• game
• political
• revolts

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game. Rob Bishop

• stupid
• war
• wanton

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. Alexander Berkman

• common
• mother
• mother child

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 to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. Adrienne Rich

• thinking
• death
• look

You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused. Eliot Ness