Insensitive Quotes

• All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Block, Selfish

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• It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

  Ann Landers

  People, Feelings, Irony

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• I am pissed off at your insensitive inability to understand why I'm pissed off in the first place.

  Ai Yazawa

  Pissed Off, Inability, Firsts

  "Fictional character: Nana "Hachiko" Komatsu". "Nana", 2000.

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• People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.

  Sarah Palin

  Zero, People, Religion

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. September 09, 2010.

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• The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people.

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, People, Comfort

  Pope Francis (2017). “The Works of Mercy”, p.20, Orbis Books

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• Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

  Rick Yancey

  Sensitive Person, Personality, Habit

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.132, Penguin

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• It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

  W. H. Auden

  Thinking, Self, People

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("Markings"), (p. 438), 1973.

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• In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive.

  Krystal

  Heart, Character, Journey

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• It is always possible to be happy by ignoring the sufferings of the millions! People with high conscience can never attain this kind of insensitive happiness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, People, Suffering

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• How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

  Muriel Lester

  Gratitude, Wonder, Granted

  Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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• God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

  Charles Stanley

  Leadership, Arrogant, Steps

  "Dr. Charles Stanley on Destructive 'Landmines' Believers Face". Interview with Lillian Kwon, www.christianpost.com. September 14, 2007.

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• All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

  Marc Bolan

  Rocks, Musician, Sound

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• You probably won't remember me. I'm probably ancient history. I'm one of the chosen few who went ahead and fell for you. I'm out of vogue, I'm out of touch. I fell too fast, I feel too much. I thought that you might have some advice to give on how to be insensitive.

  Jann Arden

  Giving, Advice, Might

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• To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of autonomy. The failure to see the non-human domain in the richer terms appropriate to ethics licences supposedly ‘purely instrumental’ relationships that distort our perceptions and enframings, impoverish our relations and make us insensitive to dependencies and interconnections

  Val Plumwood

  Relationship, Sympathy, Nature

  Val Plumwood (2005). “Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason”, p.9, Routledge

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• No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world ... the Brazilian people, particularly the humblest among you, can offer the world a valuable lesson in solidarity, a word that is too often forgotten or silenced because it is uncomfortable ... I would like to make an appeal to those in possession of greater resources, to public authorities and to all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity

  Pope Francis

  People, Justice, World

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• Disagree with someone on the right and he is likely to think you obtuse, wrong, foolish, a dope. Disagree with someone on the left, and he is more likely to think you selfish, a sell-out, insensitive, possibly evil.

  J.R. Miller

  Selfish, Dope, Thinking

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• You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.

  Robert Caro

  Writing, People, Appreciate

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• While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Past, Reality, Years

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.49, Penguin

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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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• Have you seen how fish are able to swim in a school so precisely relating to their fish-fellows and never clumsily bump into one another? That's because they have a highly developed sense of feeling in their bodies, which enables them to feel not only the movement of the water against their skin but the presence of other beings who are close. They certainly are not cold-blooded in the sense that they are dull, insensitive, and have no feelings.

  Sharon Gannon

  School, Water, Feelings

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". Q & A with Sharon Gannon, jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• When we speak of a calm state of mind or peace of mind, we shouldn't confuse that with an insensitive state of apathy. Having a calm or peaceful state of mind doesn't mean being spaced out or completely empty. Peace of mind or a calm state of mind is rooted in affection and compassion and is sensitive and responsive to others.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Compassion, Peaceful

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• Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result is that we have developed a kind of false security where language is concerned, and our sensitivity to language has deteriorated. And we have become in proportion insensitive to silence.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Attitude, Writing, Hands

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• Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come across as impersonal, insensitive, amoral, and not particularly human to the clients they serve.

  Thane Rosenbaum

  Law, Moral Development, Order

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• Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet.

  J. K. Rowling

  Voice, Hermione, Warts

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• Think of yourself as an insensitive, nitpicking, irritable fool to use the product.

  Ma Huateng

  Thinking, Use, Fool

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