#pointless

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#bell #implies #interference #other #people

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#attained #been #carried #consideration #declaring

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless. ↗

— Jef I. Richards

#consumers #done #ethically #pointless #trust

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#adequately #clause #excessive #infliction #inherent

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. ↗

— Andrew Brown

#big #complete #internet #life #people

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. ↗

— Florence King

#bite #conventions #etiquette #matters #merely

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished. ↗

— Paul Simon

#done #finished #i #importance #lot

Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#over #pointless #regretting #thing

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#being #feels #i #i am #ideally

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#pointless #suicide #logic