Callous Quotes

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.

Callous greed grows pious very fast.

Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own way, each has his own scars. So I think I'm as concerned about fairness and justice as anybody. But what disgusts me even more are people who have no imagination. The kind T. S. Elliot calls 'hollow men'. People who fill up that lack of imagination with heartless bits of straw, not even aware of what they're doing. Callous people who throw a lot of empty words at you, trying to force you to do what you don't want to.

Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.

Tories are depraved, malignant, avaricious, and haughty.

I'm not a nice person.

We have come to see him as not vital but violent, not clever but devious, not shrewd but cynical.

Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

These people are not kindly people.

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.

I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.

Every person you meet is waging his or her own war against a callous universe that is plotting against them.

Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.

George W. Bush has a heart of stone.

Mean is easy. Mean is lazy. Mean is self-satisfied and slothful.

The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.

Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.