Impersonal Quotes

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sympathy, True, Giving

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Women, Woman, Personal

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Government, Hand, Neighbor

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Simone Weil

Love, Faith, God

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
Emile M. Cioran

Philosophy, Anxiety, Ideas

For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Time, Someone, Decision

War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.
Dennis Kucinich

War, Put, Place

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.
Anne Parillaud

Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.
Andrew Weil

Technology, Hurt, Real

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.
Jaron Lanier

May, Whole, Personal

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.
Georg Simmel

Less, Culture, Individual

In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal, digitized relationships and into the arms of simulacrums with manners imported from simpler times.
Daniel H. Wilson

True, End, Times

By the '50s and '60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered to characterize the Japanese enemy as particularly evil; in fact, they never bothered to characterize him at all.
Stephen Hunter

War, Movies, Enemy

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.
Georg Simmel

Life, Time, Relations

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.
Herbert Simon

Beautiful, Nothing, Demand

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.
Roy Lichtenstein

Work, Wanted, Personally

When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees. As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law.
John Mica

Important, Law, Country

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither 'good' or 'bad', and who knows neither love nor hatred.
Savitri Devi

Love, Nature, Good

Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.
Bo Derek

Sex, Nothing, Violence

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
Alfred Jarry

Life, Character, Enough

One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.
William Hull

Person, Problem, Ideas

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