Callous Quotes - Page 4

• Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.

  Camille Paglia

  Children, Pain, Men

  "Vamps and Tramps". Book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

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• England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world.

  Colin MacInnes

  Football, Baby, Sweet

  "Out of the way: later essays".

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• Sweetness! World needs sweetness! It needs a sweet child, a sweet dolphin, a sweet monkey; it needs sweet people to soften the callous hearts!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sweet, Children, Heart

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• Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that you listen to the horrid tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?

  Thomas Paine

  Honor, Superstitions, Indifference

  Thomas Paine (1852). “The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology”, p.109

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• 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

  Hurt, Pain, People

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• And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to have that passion, the intensity, the energy that freedom brings, freedom from suffering.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• ...though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; reason can never reconcile one to life; nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Opaque, Want, Spirit

  Elizabeth Bowen (1998). “Bowen's Court”

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• There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people. Through vicious, violent video games...

  Wayne LaPierre

  Country, Games, People

  Wayne LaPierre's Speech after the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, hollywoodlife.com. December 21, 2012.

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• Some staff doesn't work well under pressure. So I make sure that my staff is very comfortable. I've got a bad reputation for being quite callous when it comes to culling staff. They are selected personally by me. I socialize with all my staff and they know me well and I consider them friends and we travel overseas together.

  Charles Teo

  Together, Pressure, Reputation

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• [On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, either to sink under the trial, or to be made callous by it. The best is, to be as wise as is possible under a great disability, and as happy as is possible under a great privation.

  Harriet Martineau

  Wise, Views, Trials

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• Oh God, modern life with all its feelings. ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about nowadays is getting in touch with their feelings. ... The world has become one enormous group therapy session. It's a terrible bore. My motto is, 'Thank you for not sharing!

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Feelings, Groups, Modern Life

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• It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do principally nourish and abound. For the good opinion of our fellow-men is the strongest though not the purest motive to virtue. The privations of poverty render us too cold and callous, and the privileges of property too arrogant and confidential, to feel; the first places us beneath the influence of opinion--the second, above it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Class, Feelings

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• I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy - which I characterize as survival of the fittest, richest and whitest - is too callous for most Americans.

  John Yarmuth

  Philosophy, Ideas, Survival

  "Trapped in a Mine" by Rep. John Yarmuth, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2010.

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• Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Voice, Evil, Indulgence

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• Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.

  Michael Bassey

  Good Friend, Luck, Way

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• The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Mind, Vivid, Awakening

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• The callous use of general warrants and the disregard for the Bill of Rights must end. Forcing us to choose between our rights and our safety is a false choice and we are better than that as a nation and as a people.

  Rand Paul

  Rights, People, Safety

  "Rand Paul promises to derail NSA vote" By Allie Malloy, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2015.

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• One of the signs of the imminent Apocalypse is the "bitterness of all waters," and anyone traveling through eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and its satellites-everywhere that the command economy operated, with its callous disregard for anything but narrow-focused abstract principle-could be forgiven for thinking that the Apocalypse was no longer imminent but in full cry. There's hardly a river, stream, or brook that isn't contaminated with the runoff from human misuse, whether industrial effluents, agricultural pesticides and herbicides, or worse.

  Marq de Villiers

  Thinking, Europe, Rivers

  Marq De Villiers (2001). “Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they're socially callous.

  Dave Chappelle

  People, Comedian, Earth

  "Dave Chappelle Is Back (This Time We're 100% Sure It's Maybe Totally for Real)". Interview with Anthony Green, www.gq.com. November 12, 2014.

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• I don't want to sound callous. I mean, even if I have nothing to offer, that doesn't matter, because that still doesn't mean that what anybody else has to offer therefore has to be true.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Sound, Want

  Interview with Sheena McDonald, 1995.

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