#senseless

I nodded, unsure if Ted sounded admiring or angry. 'I waded in but I couldn't find him. I mean, is it possible - the water wasn't deep enough for him to drown. It doesn't make any sense.' 'My band made four brilliant albums and never had a single goddamn hit. We were supposed to be the American Rolling Stones, and we couldn't get more than five minutes of airplay. Does that make sense?' Ted stubbed out his cigarette. ↗

— Elizabeth Hand

#fairness #fame #music-scene #senselessness #vagaries

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

#believe #destruction #dynamite #even #far

They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#destruction

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#cost #most #resistance #senseless