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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.

    Party   Gun   Mind  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

    Self   Causes   Sensitive  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 87, 1799.
  • 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 Sölle (1975). “Suffering”, Fortress Press
  • The accusation of cultural insensitivity is a weapon.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.

    "A Thief’s Journal". Book by Jean Genet, 1949.
  • It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

    People   Feelings   Irony  
    Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books
  • I hate the very human inclination towards insensitivity

    Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.1108, Crown
  • I saw them; there is nothing beautiful about them, just that they are a little higher than the others. Referring to one of the oldest and loveliest groves of redwoods, showing insensitivity to their magnificence.

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

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • 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.

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

  • 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

    Religious   People   Evil  
  • Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

  • 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.

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

    Source: www.progressive.org
  • 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.

  • Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life, I am constantly second-guessing myself. My mind is filled with 'yes, buts,' 'so whats?' and other skeptical rejoinders. I am forever monitoring myself for traces of folly, insensitivity, arrogance, false humility, cruelty, stupidity, immaturity and, guess what, I keep finding examples. Age has not made me wiser, except maybe in retrospect.

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

  • [T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

    Pain   Emotion   Century  
  • 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.

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

    Death   Men   People  
  • Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.

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

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