Senseless Quotes
189 quotes by 166 authors
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The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the…
— Adolf Hitler
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It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands of years. It…
— Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
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A little warning would’ve been nice. You couldn’t have said, ‘Hey, as part of your training today, I’m going to beat you senseless’?
— Julie Kagawa
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It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.
— Jon Campbell
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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
— Barbara Johnson
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He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
— Hesiod
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Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what…
— Paulo Coelho
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Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
— Isaac Newton
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Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows that…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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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…
— George Grosz
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Women with women. Men with men. They committed indecent acts with one another. And they received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. They're…
— Phil Robertson
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The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the…
— Chris Hedges
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Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks…
— Sergei Dovlatov
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The fact that cultures are failing all over the world means that they don't know how to operate a society to make it work. Â…
— Jacque Fresco
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Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish he could rid…
— Hermann Hesse
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning…
— Rollo May
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We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic…
— Dan Ariely
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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…
— Katherine Dunn
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It's always strange to read the things you've hoped for in the past because by now those hopes may be spoken for or gone, transformed…
— Andrew McMahon
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