Quotes & Sayings About Callous Attitude

Those who take an official, business-like attitude towards other people's suffering, like judges, policemen, doctors, from force of habit, as time goes by, become callous to such a degree that they would be unable to treat their clients otherwise than formally even if they wanted to; in this respect they are no different from the peasant who slaughters sheep and calves in his backyard without noticing the blood. — Anton Chekhov

It made me feel particularly sickened to know that this kind of callous attitude toward animals is repeated again and again in laboratories around this country. — Jane Goodall