Heartless Quotes

• The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Obscure
  • Heartless
  • Soulless

• Whether *****s's feel me or not regardless style heartless foul

  

  Donald Mason
  • Style
  • Heartless

• I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Sense

• I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world.'

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • People
  • World
  • Heart

• A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?

  

  Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • Wife
  • Picture
  • Destiny

• Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.

  

  Peter Lindbergh
  • Women
  • Beginning
  • Heartless

• Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Thinking
  • Hope
  • Survival

• To say 'A High Wind in Jamaica' is a novel about children who are abducted by pirates is to make it seem like a children's book. But that's completely wrong; its theme is actually how heartless children are.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Children
  • Book
  • High

• He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • She
  • Stupid
  • Heartless

• People can be so heartless and dirty.

  

  Jim Goad
  • People
  • Dirty
  • Heartless

• The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Money
  • Heartless

• The American people have not become heartless.

  

  Joe Biden
  • People
  • American
  • Heartless

• A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

  

  Caitlin Thomas
  • Littles
  • Heartless
  • Vulgarity Is

• I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

  

  Franklin Pierce
  • War
  • Heartless

• A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant or ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. Neurotics are heartless.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Reality
  • Interesting
  • Mistake

• All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap so very high that grown-up hearts flutter in terror.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Children
  • Say
  • Trees

• Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming 'Get a move on!' Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Moving
  • Care
  • Helping

• It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Humanity
  • Moral
  • Color

• My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

  

  William Allen White
  • Life
  • Women
  • America

• Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.

  

  Ivor Novello
  • Feels
  • Blessed
  • Laughter

• It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • True
  • Change
  • Heartless

• I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free. It would be...heartless terror. Yes. Terrible, and... Very great. To shed your skin, every old skin, one by one and then walk away, unemcumbered, into the morning.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Great
  • Free
  • Morning

• The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

  

  James Thurber
  • Tears
  • Laughter
  • Heartless

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