As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
This is a containment action. It is also designed to deter. Over and over again servicemen were killed in callous attacks.
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.
Is it just the rights of average workers that they are so callous about.
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.
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
crumbling under an administration blinded by ideology and a callous indifference to the realities of the world around it.
In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.
For people who look closely at energy, the idea of New York being a callous and wasteful place is long dead and buried. When it comes to following up on new ideas and new technologies and staying ahead of the curve in terms of being smart and economical, New York is clearly among the leaders in the country.
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
... 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.
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.
With numbing regularity, good people were seen to knuckle under the demands of authority and perform actions that were callous and severe,
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.
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might beneither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.
The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.
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