Insensitivity Quotes - Page 2

• Tomorrow, I'm going to a soup kitchen in Mobile. I think that will symbolize the insensitivity of this administration to human needs.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Thinking, Soup Kitchens, Needs

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• Do people on food stamps actually need more movies to watch? Well, I'm probably treading dangerously close to the line of insensitivity, right?

  Rush Limbaugh

  People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In many respects, I think a lot of businessmen have become highly insensitive to the world, the environment, to everything around them. What are they doing with the millions and millions of dollars they're making? Why don't they give anything back? That, to me, is the height of insensitivity.

  Scott Bakula

  Thinking, Giving, Dollars

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• The accusation of cultural insensitivity is a weapon.

  Bassam Tibi

  Weapons, Accusation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Many managers feel, somewhat cynically, that people are being paid to do their jobs and that's that. This attitude reflects an insensitivity to people that is a trademark of many hockey-style managers.

  Phil Crosby

  Jobs, Attitude, Hockey

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• All we want, those few of us who have the strength to realize what's going on, is the freedom to create and entertain and share with each other, to preserve and cherish what we can while we can, and to build our own little citadels away from the insensitivity of the rest of the world.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  World, Want, Littles

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• People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

  Isabel Burton

  Selfish, Suffering Of Others, People

  Lady Isabel Burton (1875). “The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal”, p.262

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• toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.

  Dorothee Solle

  Lying, Suffering, Apathy

  Dorothee Sölle (1975). “Suffering”, Fortress Press

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• The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters.

  Kenneth Clark

  Educational, Ghetto, Dark

  Kenneth B. Clark (1989). “Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power”, p.11, Wesleyan University Press

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• I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.

  Boris Pasternak

  Writing, Broken, Routine

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• Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

  Honore de Balzac

  Book, Hands, Doubt

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• I apologize for the insensitivity of my remarks with respect to the mayor or his family, however I think it is important to note that this decision involves potential risk to innocent people.

  John Shadegg

  Thinking, People, Decision

  "Shadegg Apologizes For Saying NYC Mayor's Daughter Could Get Kidnapped" by Rachel Slajda, "Talking Points Memo" (TalkingPointsMemo.com), November 17, 2009.

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• Whatever you do to recover from a loss, people will be critical because they believe that the only way to recover is their way. And you will even run into some people who should be run into by rhinos because they actually don't want to see you get over your tragedy at all; grief is a spectator sport for them.

  Joan Rivers

  Sports, Running, Grief

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• Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.

  Honore de Balzac

  Past, Icy, Snuff

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• A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Brother, Endurance, Doctrine

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• I'M SAD, because another young life was lost from his family, the racial divide has widened, a community is in shambles, accusations, insensitivity hurt and hatred are boiling over, and we may never know the truth about what happened that day.

  Benjamin Watson

  Hurt, Racism, Community

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.15, NavPress

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• Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Death, Men, People

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• Usually, I take a hike for a while after submitting a column to Townhall. Too much of my insensitivity can cause emotional problems among proggies, and I am, after all, a compassionate man.

  Neal Boortz

  Men, Emotional, Too Much

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• For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.

  Barney Frank

  College, Expression, President

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