Uncaring Quotes

• Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love Is, Rocks, Bullshit

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• Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

  Mother Teresa

  Sad, Sympathy, Thinking

  Speech by the President of India, Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil, at the Birth Centenary Celebrations of Mother Teresa, pib.nic.in. August 30, 2010.

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• Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Life, Time, Dying

  "A Child Is Born". Poetic Christmas drama in one act by Stephen Vincent Benet (first presented on radio as part of the anthology program "Cavalcade of America"), December 21, 1942.

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• Are we alone in an uncaring universe, or is God some kind of wiseguy?

  Matt Groening

  Kind, Universe

  "Life in Hell". Comic book by Matt Groening, 1977 - 2012.

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• One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.

  Jane Jacobs

  Students, Wonder, Enough

  "Dark Age Ahead". Book by Jane Jacobs, Chapter Four, Science Abandoned, p. 79, 2004.

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• So instead of investing your time in a passion, you’ve sold your life to work for an uncaring machine that doesn’t understand you. That’s the problem with our society. And what’s the reward? Go home and get a big TV.

  Joe Rogan

  Passion, Home, Investing Your Time

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• A tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.

  Richard Bach

  Years, Choices, Different

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• We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.

  Silvia Cartwright

  Suffering, World, West

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• We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

  Mother Teresa

  Motivational, Wise, Peace

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• I shut myself off to make life bearable. I'm like a damn machine sometimes. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Emotionless.

  Monica Murphy

  Machines, Sometimes, Damn

  Monica Murphy (2016). “The Drew + Fable Series 4-Book Bundle: One Week Girlfriend, Second Chance Boyfriend, Three Broken Promises, Four Years Later”, p.30, Bantam

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• You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Christian, Hate, Media

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• The tree is stripped,
  All color, fragrance gone,
  Yet already on the bough,
  Uncaring spring!

  Ikkyu

  Spring, Color, Tree

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• A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely

  R.J. Ellory

  Hands, Two, Wish

  R.J. Ellory (2013). “The R. J. Ellory Collection”, p.1441, Hachette UK

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• Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.

  Dean Koontz

  Pain, Rip, Heart

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.244, Bantam

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• Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Meat, Sandwiches, States

  Bryce Courtenay (1989). “The Power of One”, Random House LLC

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• She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those nearly fifty years she identified completely with the poor she served by her own experience of being seemingly unwanted and unloved by God. In a mystical way — through this painful interior "darkness" — she tasted their greatest poverty of being "unwanted, unloved, and uncared for."

  Mother Teresa

  Catholic, Poverty, Naked

  "A Call to Mercy: Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve".

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• Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own.

  Harold Wilson

  Men, Design, Ruthlessness

  Harold Wilson (1971). “A personal record: the Labour Government, 1964-1970”

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• Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

  Lee Strobel

  Pain, Selfish, Evil

  "Lee Strobel Probes 'Why?' During First Sunday Service After Colorado Shooting" by Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• I will be as callous and
  uncaring as you can imagine, I have no interest in paying for your health
  care. I`d hate to see you get cancer, but that`s your problem, not mine.

  Steve Lonegan

  Hate, Cancer, Care

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• At best, God can be viewed as nothing more than an uncaring incompetent father-figure

  George Carlin

  Father, Best God, Figures

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• Let's be clear: all professions look bad in the movies. And there's a good reason for this. Movies don't portray career paths, they conscript interesting lifestyles to serve a plot. So lawyers are all unscrupulous and doctors are all uncaring. Psychiatrists are all crazy, and politicians are all corrupt. All cops are psychopaths, and all businessmen are crooks. Even moviemakers come off badly: directors are megalomaniacs, actors are spoiled brats. Since all occupations are portrayed negatively, why expect scientists to be treated differently?

  Michael Crichton

  Crazy, Careers, Doctors

  Michael Crichton's Speech at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Anaheim, California, www.abc.net.au. January 25, 1999.

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• I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos - in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever - was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I’ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I’m keeping the last shell for myself.

  Charles Stross

  Atheist, Believe, Waiting

  "The Fuller Memorandum (The Laundry Files, Book 3)". Book by Charles Stross, July 1, 2010.

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• Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced to live the life of a cow on a feedlot, or a monkey in a laboratory, or an elephant in the circus, or a bull in a rodeo, or a mink on a fur farm. Then people would be awakened from their soporific states and finally understand the horrors that are inflicted on the animal kingdom by the vilest species to ever roam this planet: the human animal!

  Gary Yourofsky

  Live Life, Thinking, Animal

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• The original Greek word "idiotes" referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused exclusively on their own life and were both ignorant of and uncaring about public concerns and the common good.

  Jim Hightower

  Self, People, Greek

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• Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.

  Dorothy Allison

  Writing, Justice, Demand

  "'Cavedweller' offers return of a prodigal daughter" by K.C. Wildmoon, www.cnn.com.

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