callous and, on top of that, baseborn

This indifference mirrors similar reactions to other recent global appeals, such as for schooling for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. The lack of concern seems particularly callous when one considers that the cost of educating a refugee child is no more than 8 a week.

Indifference cannot be countenanced.

The Price of European Indifference

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.

Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.

who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Passive tolerance to evil through inaction or indifference.

The international community should encourage the Palestinian Authority to act so these callous atrocities no longer continue.

Solidarity is an excellent therapy for many mental states arrogance, desperation, indifference, egomania.

Encouraged by this indifference, Armenians successfully committed historical crime and genocide against Azerbaijanis.

You see, the scale of the suffering numbs us into a kind of indifference.

It was the continuing devastating war in the Congo and the indifference of the world.

The indifference of some countries to settling their arrears was a cause of great concern.

What accounts for this apparent indifference also evident among European politicians to the looming political risks in Britain?

As the world watches Libya s Muammar el Qaddafi slaughter his own people, we should remember the human cost of international indifference.

The challenges that are hampering the Government's efforts on the ground are all related to the indifference of the international community.

The population was very concerned at the lack of progress towards self determination and the international community's apparent indifference to their fate.

And there's kind of a bifurcation people had to choose between fear and acceptance actually fear and indifference they kind of chose suspicion.

Germany s Foreign Ministry is preparing a policy on Russian German relations that will enshrine indifference to Putin s lawlessness as being in the national interest of the most powerful member of the European Union. But indifference becomes appeasement when it encourages Putin to pursue his lawless ways in the international arena, as in his current campaign to strangle Georgia s economy.

It is suicidal for the EU to draw on Europe s worst political traditions, the common denominator of which is the idea that evil must be appeased and that the best way to achieve peace is through indifference to the freedom of others. Just the opposite is true such policies expose an indifference to one s own freedom and pave the way for war.

And recall that it was indifference to the non reforming East European communist regimes on the part of Mikhail Gorbachev and the Soviet Union that ultimately sealed their fate and delivered Havel from a prison cell to Prague Castle. Havel, of course, was a beneficiary of such indifference, but he never practiced it, remaining a fighter for truth and freedom throughout his life.

In Uganda, most of our successes have been attained in the face of opposition, indifference or distracting, superficial heckling by quite a number of our external partners.

And recall that it was indifference to the non reforming East European communist regimes on the part of Mikhail Gorbachev and the Soviet Union that ultimately sealed 160 their fate and delivered Havel from a prison cell to Prague Castle. Havel, of course, was a beneficiary of such indifference, but he never practiced it, remaining a fighter for truth and freedom throughout his life.

If we want to build something better on the ruins of multicultural indifference, our dialogue must become more profound. Prejudice must make way for empathy, and alienation for respect.

For this people's heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.'

For this people's heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.'

But, despite deep divisions among the rebels, the cost of Western indifference is probably higher than the risk of intervention. The international community can no longer hide behind the pretense of ignorance.

We have maintained on several occasions in our region and elsewhere that the principle of non intervention in the domestic affairs of States must be associated with the idea of non indifference .

Whether it is mutilations in Sierra Leone, genocide in Rwanda, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans or disappearances in Latin America, the parties to conflicts have acted with deliberate indifference to those conventions.

Governments that pay ransoms are saving the lives of some of their citizens, but putting the remainder of their citizens and others at greater risk. The refusal to pay ransoms to terrorists can seem callous, but in truth it is the only ethical policy.

The international community s shameful acceptance of impunity for Assad and his henchmen is a blot on the conscience of the world. Western leaders dithering, and the callous, cynical, and cavalier support of Russia and China for Assad, is a stigma that they will bear forever.

for this people's heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again and I would heal them.'

for this people's heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again and I would heal them.'

In the international context, we join the appeal for a more just and humane world order in which the less developed nations are not condemned for all time to discrimination, indifference and backwardness.

Why the indifference? Are investors too complacent, or is their apparent lack of concern rational, given that the actual economic and financial impact of current geopolitical risks at least so far has been modest?

In this context, the US s inexplicable indifference towards the region is both naïve and dangerous. The incoming Democratic US Congress has signaled that free trade deals with Peru and Columbia need to be renegotiated.

France has a common history and geography with the countries on the southern Mediterranean shore. The duty to intervene and the cost of indifference is probably higher for France than for any other Western country.

They are the victims of hateful crimes that are a stain on the conscience of all humanity but that take place against a background of almost total indifference on the part of the international community.

International political indifference and a sense of inertia have characterized the conduct of the international community, which has aggravated the civil war and allowed unabated human suffering and environmental destruction to continue in my country.

Who could have said with certainty that the economic upturn announced by Hollande was real rather than aspirational? Beyond his message s wishful thinking, the public s reaction to the messenger was a mixture of disbelief and indifference.

Today s indifference is particularly, though not exclusively, evident in the United States. President Barack Obama was silent on the issue in his re election campaign, and breathed scarcely a word about it in his first campaign, too.