Insensitive Quotes

#1. 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

#2. In modern life the world belongs to the stupid, the insensitive and the disturbed. The right to live and triumph is today earned with the same qualifications one requires to be interned in a madhouse: amorality, hypomania and an incapacity for thought.

Fernando Pessoa

#3. I have become used to swallowing insults for so long that I am almost insensitive; yet

John Calvin

#4. Think of yourself as an insensitive, nitpicking, irritable fool to use the product.

Ma Huateng

#5. But centuries of time have not made me insensitive

Christopher Pike

#6. As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot remain callous to our responsibility toward nature and insensitive to the inherent rights of the animals.

Nathaniel Altman

#7. The downfall of any great nation ... always comes at the hands of it's pompous and insensitive leaders.

Timothy Pina

#8. I have a profound dislike for showing off one's material wealth. This is insensitive and it is not what human hearts are made for. But what I like about China and sometimes miss in Europe is the entrepreneurial spirit of our young people, their ambition and dynamism.

Zhang Xin

#9. To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded.

Sam Brownback

#10. It's funny because when Jason [Statham] was drowning I was filming with an iPhone. It may have been a bit insensitive but I just thought, "you know what, this was a magic moment". And I couldn't help him anyway because I didn't want to drown.

Sylvester Stallone

#11. And while meanness is a function of the insensitive, grumpiness is merely a function of the dissatisfied.

Tom Robbins

#12. I felt betrayed, as if what we shared on our journey to the Iron King was only a farce, a tactic the cunning Ice prince had used to get me to come to the Unseelie Court. Or perhaps he had just grown tired of me and moved on. Just another reminder of how capricious and insensitive the fey could be.

Julie Kagawa

#13. Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?

Mary Balogh

#14. With every day that passes, David Blunkett becomes more insensitive in his language and more intemperate in his actions.

Charles Kennedy

#15. Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration rhetoric and the harshly insensitive theory that no additional sacrifice or contribution should be sought from those at the top.

Eliot Spitzer

#16. When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective ... There is something about a war like this that makes people insensitive. It dulls the conscience. It strengthens the forces of reaction, and it brings into being bitterness and hatred and violence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#17. There are no insensitive hearts, just hearts that don't find it profitable anymore to feel.

Angelos Michalopoulos

#18. If I vibrate with vibrations other than yours, must you conclude that my flesh is insensitive?

Claude Cahun

#19. The boy was not insensitive, he knew; but he had the facility and self-confidence that came of looking at fate not as a master but as an equal.

Edith Wharton

#20. Damn. Sometimes I really could be a cold-hearted, insensitive bitch.

Jennifer Estep

#21. Insensitive people are only upset when they actually see the blood, but actually by the time that the blood has been shed the tragedy has already completed.

Yukio Mishima

#22. 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

#23. It is always possible to be happy by ignoring the sufferings of the millions! People with high conscience can never attain this kind of insensitive happiness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. When you are calm, quiet and sensitive then you can expand. But when you are irritated, phobic, fearful, insensitive, and neurotic, you can't achieve anything.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#25. How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

Muriel Lester

#26. I thought you might have some advice to give on how to be insensitive.

Jann Arden

#27. Wow! She's hot." Morrison commented while gaping lewdly at the body lying supine on the bed.
Insensitive asshole. I took a deep breath to calm my rising anger. "She's dead agent Morrison. I assure you she's very cold." I rebuked sharply.

P.A. Lupton

#28. He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane.

Johnny Cash

#29. The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words.

James Purdy

#30. Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, and it would be an insensitive man who did not know it.

John Steinbeck

#31. Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and wrong. I've found that when that happens, it usually means I'm writing pretty well, pretty deeply, pretty rawly.

Andre Dubus III

#32. In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.

Fernando Pessoa

#33. 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

#34. Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids ... on my desk in little jars!

Stephen King

#35. Churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.

Stephen R. Covey

#36. His body was as insensitive to pain as was his mind to subtleties.

John Steinbeck

#37. Such public shaming is rampant and sometimes appropriate, but unfortunately, in recent years, shaming has morphed into coordinated reputation murders, and anyone who is slightly insensitive or not PC enough can be led to a public character lynching without due process.

Gudjon Bergmann

#38. 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

#39. The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people.

Pope Francis

#40. We can become so insensitive to the Spirit's prodding that we become too idle, too self absorbed and too busy with too many things that in the eyes of God, are worthless.

William Branks

#41. Yeah, I'm insensitive. So is life. DEAL with it.

Neal Boortz

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

I.L. Peretz

#45. 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

#46. I can't imagine what someone would write that would infuriate me. Maybe if my loved one had died of some disease and someone was insensitive, that would piss me off.

Joel Stein

#47. I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope.

Joel Schumacher

#48. It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

Ann Landers

#49. Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing.

Rick Yancey

#50. To this point it probably looks like I am setting this up as a slam-dunk case for ambulating while working, and getting ready to lambaste treadmill-resistant managers as insensitive and tragically shortsighted knuckle draggers. Well, they are.

Neal Stephenson

#51. In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive.

Krystal

#52. It is 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

#53. Those who are critical don't like being criticized, and those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.

Suzy Kassem

#54. Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come across as impersonal, insensitive, amoral, and not particularly human to the clients they serve.

Thane Rosenbaum

#55. Disagree with someone on the right and he is likely to think you obtuse, wrong, foolish, a dope. Disagree with someone on the left, and he is more likely to think you selfish, a sell-out, insensitive, possibly evil.

J.R. Miller

#56. Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

John Walford

#57. A contentious, belligerent Christian isn't living according to the Spirit but according to the flesh. When we stubbornly insist on our own way and are insensitive to others, peace is not our goal.

Billy Graham

#58. I'm not insensitive to the jobs. I'm desperately concerned about those jobs. But you don't fix them by pandering to people and telling them you're going to shut the door. You have to grow jobs.

John F. Kerry

#59. He was right. And he was an insensitive shit.

Wally Lamb

#60. 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

#61. The Democrats, the left has this 30-year playbook of how to destroy conservatives by simply exposing the horrible, the mean-spirited, insensitive things they say, but that isn't going to work on Trump the way it works on conservatives, for a whole host of reasons.

Rush Limbaugh

#62. This culture of waste has made us insensitive even to the waste and disposal of food, which is even more despicable when all over the world, unfortunately, many individuals and families are suffering from hunger and malnutrition.

Pope Francis

#63. 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.

#64. Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.

Fran Lebowitz

#65. More sensitive than others in the beginning, we have to develop the will, the stamina, the determination, and the insensitivity to take critical abuse. A good writer, therefore, does well to see himself as a strong, weak person, full of brave timidity, sensitive and insensitive.

Norman Mailer

#66. When they [Democrats] running all these ads that are characterizing [Mitt] Romney as a rich, insensitive, out of touch, aloof nerd who loved having his dog on the roof of the station wagon, who didn't care when the wife of an employee dies with cancer.

Rush Limbaugh

#67. Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.

Mort Sahl

#68. The mere suggestion that not speaking for a day can give you an appreciation of the social isolation that comes with the experience of disability, particularly those whose impairments prohibit them from communicating verbally, is insensitive at best.

Stella Young

#69. Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.

Criss Jami

#70. HIs slower mind could not keep pace with her swift reactions; his emotions, not easily aroused, were still less easily subdued. Always he felt himself left far behind her, dull, clumsy, insensitive, too fond, too gross, too awkward.

Winifred Holtby

#71. (I've often noticed that people equate "having a sense of humour" with "being an insensitive moron.")

Sophie Kinsella

#72. Today the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. Today the right to live and triumph is awarded on virtually the same basis as admission into an insane asylum: an inability to think, amorality, and nervous excitability. 176

Fernando Pessoa

#73. Delightful and sensitive boys have a habit of growing into insensitive and far-from-agreeable men.

P.D. James

#74. There will always be cruel and insensitive people, but those are not qualities that can be assigned to God. The Bible says that God is love. Love is never insensitive or cruel, so therefore I cannot believe God capable of such ... human attributes.

Tracie Peterson

#75. All rock musicians are deaf ... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

Marc Bolan

#76. If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

Nigel Short

#77. Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially insensitive.

Will Shetterly

#78. Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet.

J.K. Rowling

#79. There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensitive to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune, Roosevelt said just before he became president.

Timothy Egan

#80. 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

#81. But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed the level of what appalls, what stuns, what shocks.

Anna Quindlen

#82. Kipling is a jingo imperialist, he is morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting. It is better to start by admitting that, and then to try to find out why it is that he survives while the refined people who have sniggered at him seem to wear so badly.

George Orwell

#83. and debris, and her husband and I settled back, sucking on toothpicks like a pair of feudal lords. This may sound sexist and insensitive and politically incorrect - and it is - but I had long since

Will Ferguson

#84. I have to admit, I was quite insensitive to the issue of gender inequality in the workplace until a few years ago.

Naina Lal Kidwai

#85. While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#86. She heard Thorne say something about freeze-dried cardboard and Iko accuse him of being insensitive to those without any taste buds at all.

Marissa Meyer

#87. Once you say something, it stays said. I apologized to anyone who may have been hurt by what I said, and I really meant it. I am absolutely not interested in hurting anyone, or being mean or insensitive.

Henry Rollins

#88. You're too sensitive' victims of sexual abuse are told over and over by those whose reality depends on being insensitive. Most adults who have been in the victim role cringe when anyone tells them they are sensitive. In fact, sensitivity is a lovely trait and one to be cherished in any human being.

Renee Fredrickson

#89. Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people?

Gilles Duceppe

#90. Too many times adults are insensitive to the nurture and instruction of children. Notice the balance! On the one hand there is training, nurturing, or instruction of a child. On the other, the warning or instructional dimension is emphasized. Training in God's Word must have a relational aspect.

Michael Anthony

#91. You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.

Robert Caro

#92. Maybe I'm a little callous, a little insensitive, a little self-centered, but hey, that's how I roll.

Lindy Zart

#93. The will to power, the force of desire, appears as an insensitive urge to dominate. But several points in Nietzsche's work speak against such a reading. The "self" includes the desire above all for self-overcoming. It is our own limits we most seek to break.

Karmen MacKendrick

#94. time to time, someone will tell me something so patently unbelievable that I manage not to understand the words as they're spoken. This usually leads to my blathering something incredibly insensitive or incongruous which makes me look like a tremendous jackass. This was one of those moments.

J.P. Sloan

#95. Even if every word was true, and from what you've said I think it is, it doesn't make it any less insensitive.

Jewel E. Ann

#96. that's like Vlad the Impaler calling Maggie Thatcher a bit insensitive.

David Mitchell

#97. A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel.

E. M. Forster

#98. I will always miss the person I
thought U are. But not the selfish,
unkind, insensitive and heartless
person U turned out to be.

Lily Amis

#99. People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel ... but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.

Eudora Welty

#100. Occasionally I've seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

Billy Graham