#senseless

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

#cold #despite #everything #few #guaranteed

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

#back #deconstruct #discuss #everything #fights

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

— Adolf Hitler

#any #intention #purpose #senseless #useless

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

— George Berkeley

#i #man #most #oyster #rather

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

— Max Born

#distinguishes #even #impossible #intellect #possible

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

— DMX

#difference #senseless #violence

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

— Albert Einstein

#goes #hate #heroism #how #i

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

#be the first #echoes #first #forever #hath

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

#claims #culture #drowned #each #education

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

#acts #alone #black #block #commented