Insensitivity Quotes

• 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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• Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Stupidity, Wicked, Demand

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 87, 1799.

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• At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil

  Armstrong Williams

  Religious, People, Evil

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• Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

  Ralph Neas

  Arrogance, Speechless

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• Insensitivity makes arrogance ugly; empathy is what makes humility beautiful.

  Renford Reese

  Beautiful, Humility, Empathy

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• I'm never surprised by the insensitivity of 'The New York Times' editorial board.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Boards, Editorials

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• There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

  Jean Genet

  Flower, Jail, Fragility

  Jean Genet (1973). “The Thief's Journal”

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• Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

  Randy Newman

  Song, Kind

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• A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware.

  Dalai Lama

  Peaceful, Mind, Awareness

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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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• Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Littles, Strange

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• People who cannot feel punish those who do.

  May Sarton

  People, Feels

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.

  Olivia Goldsmith

  Happiness, Expectations, Secret

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• I hate optimism out of insensitivity.

  Zuoxiao Zuzhou

  Hate, Optimism, I Hate

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• When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me.

  Bryan Stevenson

  People, Legacy, Unreliability

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

  Madame de Stael

  Self, Causes, Sensitive

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• In summary, Intelligence Intensification is desirable, because there is not a single problem confronting humanity that is not either caused or considerably worsened by the prevailing stupidity (insensitivity) of the species: badly wired robots bumping into and maiming and killing each other.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Stupidity, Humanity, Robots

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• The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.

  Steven Weber

  Party, Gun, Mind

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.

  Jean Genet

  Flower, Fragility, Delicacy

  "A Thief’s Journal". Book by Jean Genet, 1949.

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• I hate the very human inclination towards insensitivity

  Megan McCafferty

  Hate, Humans, Inclination

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.1108, Crown

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• Isn't it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on?

  Lisa Unger

  Moving, People, Tragedy

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.492, Crown

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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