Futile Quote by John McDonnell

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty…

— E. F. Schumacher

“It is futile to do with more what can be done with fewer.”

— William of Ockham

Doing nothing in the public policy world allows much more to be done in the real world.

— Thomas Hazlett

There are a lot of policies that don't work out that are nevertheless worth doing.

— Daniel Fried

Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.

— Ezra Taft Benson

It is not enough to simply dismiss policy, because it's too complicated or we're scared about what the unintended consequences might be.

— Michelle Wu

Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Scarcity breeds determination, and not simply to have more, but to hold with high regard that which we already have

— Anonymous

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

— Thomas Sowell

We must formulate policies to allow everyone to have the same opportunities in life and fix our broken society too.

— Grant Shapps

Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the…

— Thomas Sowell

The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must…

— Henry Hazlitt