Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime. Matt Taibbi
I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it. Criss Angel
People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale. Matt Taibbi