Senseless Quotes

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

Patriotism, Hate, Violence

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
W. Somerset Maugham

Evil, Ignore, Universe

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
William Penn

Mind, Reason, Reading

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
Jonathan Carroll

Time, Hope, Heart

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.
Charles Krauthammer

Enemy, Violence, Themselves

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Act, Cost, Resistance

The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.
William Hague

End, Political, Violence

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
John Holt

Love, Future, Knowledge

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
Hesiod

Victory, Suffering, Against

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Everything, Until, Action

And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.
Gary Numan

Gay, Place, Everyone

In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.
Andrew Weil

Gardening, Justice, Sense

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.
Polly Toynbee

Worst, Stay, Scared

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
George Berkeley

Stupid, Rather, Oyster

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.
George Grosz

Great, War, Wise

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
Alva Myrdal

Peace, War, Friend

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
Katherine Dunn

Women, Men, Deep

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
Thomas Lynch

Poetry, Sense, Effort

There's a difference between violence and senseless violence.
DMX

Between, Violence, Difference

On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Tom Lantos

Lives, Loss, Jewish

If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?
Jamie Kennedy

Horror, Standing, Suspect

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
John Sladek

Science, Why, Sense

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born

Impossible, Between, Reason

The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.
Charles Tupper

Gentleman, Spare

Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops.
John Blair

Alone, Black, Fact

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
Harold Rosenberg

Education, Keep, Purpose

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.
Belva Lockwood

I don't believe in 50 friends. I believe in a smaller number. Nor do I care about society events. It's the most senseless use of time.
Dietrich Mateschitz

Time, Society, Care

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.
Frederick Tennyson

Live, Thought, Forever

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
Adolf Hitler

War, Purpose, Whose

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