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callous
«The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous»
Author: Anna Letitia Barbauld
| Keywords:
approbation, at length, awakenings, callous, glow, indignation, remorse, The Glow, vivid
«For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.»
Author: Dorothy Dix
(Columnist, Journalist)
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all over, bread, burden, callous, cruel, dependency, forced, forlorn, humiliation, humiliations, piteous, scarred, Speeches, stabbing, stabs, stairs, steep, steeped, steeps, unwelcome
«One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
abstract, callous, cynical, disillusion, disillusioned, idealism, inhuman, patients, They Live, uncertain
«Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
| About:
Memory,
Youth
| Keywords:
callous, comparatively, earlier, impressible, impressions, retains, vividly
«The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.»
Author: Dennis Prager
| About:
Bureaucracy,
Corporations,
Government
| Keywords:
callous, colder, corporation, Corporations, police state, The Corporation
«The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.»
Author: Gloria Steinem
(Activist, Writer)
| Keywords:
authoritarian, biological, callous, cell, chattel, divisions, injustice, Sex and, The Family, trained