thoughtless behavior Quotes

Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

Some people rely on rumors and gossip because they are devoid of any original thought.

Yeah, well,” Nico said, “not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

We have a responsibility toward the other life-forms of our planet whose continued existence is threatened by the thoughtless behavior of our own human species. . . . Environmental responsibility – for if there is no God, then, obviously, it is up to us to put things right.

A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn't require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.

Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

The greatest sin is carelessness.

Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

Vee never needed a reason to do something stupid. Sad thing was, most of the time I didn't either.

The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity are adopted with design.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking.

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.