Calamity Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

— Karl Marx

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

Nothing is more useful than the useless.

— Roger Scruton

Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers.

— Jimmy Sangster

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of…

— Baldur von Schirach

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their…

— George Santayana

You do serve at least one useful purpose in life, as a horrible example.

— Anonymous

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that…

— William Wordsworth

The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

— Barbara Tuchman

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

— Charles Dickens

Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of…

— Hubert H. Humphrey