(19 quotes found)
“The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.”
Hannah Arendt
“This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.”
Charles Krauthammer
“Superstition is a senseless fear of God”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!”
Albert Einstein
“It's so senseless that it's unbelievable.”
Charles Wade
“These are senseless deaths in my personal opinion, ... I can't think of any reason I could give for these homicides.”
Chief Joseph
“We lost our Alan so senselessly. And we just don't understand it. I mean, this happens to other people. Now we lost our only brother and my parents lost their only son.”
Cathy Kruse
“These crimes have been very senseless. What are some of the things that we can do about them?”
Reggie Brown
“senseless, inhuman and cowardly attack”
George Carey
“It is such a senseless and tragic thing that happened with a terrific young officer,”
Laura Miller
