When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
Quotes about blunted (12 Quotes)
It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.
Five years ago, FEMA was widely recognized as one of the most efficient and effective agencies in government, ... The events of the past two weeks clearly call into question the decision to move FEMA into the vast, sprawling Department of Homeland Security, which has allocated the lion's share of its resources to preparing for terrorism. Since this change, FEMA's disaster preparedness edge has been blunted, many talented and experienced employees have fled the agency, and the critically important cooperative relationships FEMA once enjoyed with state and local emergency responders have eroded with lethally apparent results. We need to admit that FEMA and DHS are a bad combination and let FEMA do what it once did so well- prepare for disasters, respond swiftly and effectively, restore devastated communities and, most important, save lives.
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
The interesting thing is that they did this on a day when economic information came out that was decidedly weaker than expected. It blunted what could have been a pretty bloody response. The resignations might have been planned for some time, but the fact that they were a secret and were released on exactly this date and at this time turned out to be very effective.
Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest harder than adamant never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it.
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.
Chemical stimulation blunted the edge of Edna's otherwise so carefully cherished genius
The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.