Quotes with insensitivity

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• At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil.

  Armstrong Williams
  American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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• 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
  American poet (1907 - 1973)
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• 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. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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• 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
  French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-contradiction
• circumstances
• relationship
• sensitive
• conscious
• stupidity

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