Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure — Fanny Burney
It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others. — Ann Landers
Insensitivity makes arrogance ugly; empathy is what makes humility beautiful. — Renford Reese
Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind. — Randy Newman
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
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder. — Blaise Pascal
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There's a difference between being culturally insensitive - being insensitive towards a culture - and being insensitive. — Logan Paul
Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world. — Lorrie Moore
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. — CharlesMaurice de Talleyrand
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. — Frank Leahy
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
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast. — Ambrose Bierce
A risk-insensitive leverage ratio can be a useful backstop to risk-based capital requirements. — Jerome Powell
I jumped off a bridge in Italy, is that culturally insensitive? — Logan Paul
I was disrespectful everywhere: U.S., Italy, France. — Logan Paul
Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance. — Ralph Neas
The old Logan was plain old insensitive. — Logan Paul
I'm never surprised by the insensitivity of 'The New York Times' editorial board. — Joe Lhota
I am pissed off at your insensitive inability to understand why I'm pissed off in the first place. — Ai Yazawa
A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware. — Dalai Lama
Think of yourself as an insensitive, nitpicking, irritable fool to use the product. — Ma Huateng
All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds. — Marc Bolan
Insensitivity Image Quotes
Heart Touching Quotes
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. — Plato
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens
A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach. — Le Corbusier
There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart. — Melanie Griffith
The Rosary is the most beautiful and the most rich in graces of all prayers; it is the prayer that touches most the Heart of the Mother of God...and if you wish peace to reign in your homes, recite the family Rosary. — Pope Pius X
We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts. — Mahatma Gandhi
When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts. — Mary Baker Eddy
Insensibility Quotes
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. — Arthur Conan Doyle
All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions. — Neil Postman
There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity. — Saadi Shirazi
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity. — Saadi Shirazi
Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools. — Norm MacDonald
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu
Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress. — Benjamin Disraeli
In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive. — Krystal
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. — Ralph Ransom
I put on an act sometimes, and people think I’m insensitive. Really, it’s like a kind of armor because I’m too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn’t like me, I’ve got to get out. — Marlon Brando
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. — G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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
Discussion: What is right? Argument: Who is right? Gossip: Nothing is right. An insensitive time pass, polluting each others' mind. — Mahatria Ra
One of Satan's greatest tools is pride: to cause a man or a woman to center so much attention on self that he or she becomes insensitive to his Creator or fellow beings. It is a cause for discontent, divorce, teenage rebellion, family indebtedness, and most other problems we face. — Ezra Taft Benson
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
The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive. — Jan Tschichold
Once you have a major success with assertiveness, you learn that it's a much healthier path than being a doormat to the insensitive folks. You gain respect for yourself, have more time for your priorities, and develop authentic and healthier relationships. — Doreen Virtue
I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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
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
The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people. — Pope Francis
To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill hatred within yourself. — Andrzej Sapkowski
Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute. — Freeman Dyson
When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as being people who have well being and comforts, I think it takes a very insensitive, tough person not to feel they need to do something. — Ratan Tata
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
I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks. — Jeff Sessions
The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders. — H. G. Wells
I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like its crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like its laughing. Nowadays, we would say, How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask. — Gilbert Gottfried
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
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
The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Folks in the media ask at the behest of Democrats, "isn't it insensitive for us to do a Second Amendment rally following this terror attack?" Let me tell you something. I really don't view our job as being sensitive to Islamic terrorists. — Dalia Mogahed
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
Last night I made an insensitive comment which I sincerely regret. It was my mistake and I want to apologize to those who were offended. — Tyler Seguin
How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted! — Muriel Lester
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