#futile

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#another #cannot #chauvinism #destructive #driving

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#against #attacks #continue #feel #futile

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity. ↗

— Jose Marti

#attend #busy #difficult #dignity #futile

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#arms #futile #good #may #our

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force? ↗

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#conflicts #cure #family #force #futile

Death, only, renders hope futile. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

#futile #hope #only #renders

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#control #credit #currency #democracy #futile

Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. ↗

— Hartley William Shawcross

#fellow #futile #me #other #seems

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. ↗

— Rosalia de Castro

#discover #dream #earth #exist #futile

1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; 3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#resistance-is-futile #change