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Quotes About Senseless

Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?
~ Dean Cavanagh
They were stupid, stupid people.
~ Alison McGhee
Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops.
~ John Blair
To worry yourself to death with resentment would be a foolish, senseless thing to do
~ Rick Warren
The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.
~ Khaled Hosseini
The word senseless springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.
~ Khaled Hosseini
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
But the sky! The sky is blue. Its limpidness is not marred by a single cloud. (How primitive was the taste of the ancients, since their poets were always inspired by these senseless, formless, stupidly rushing accumulations of vapor!)
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
You're as sharp as a marble.
~ Derek Landy
almost automatic response: "That's just a senseless obsession. It's a false message. I'm going to focus my attention on something else." At this point, the automatic transmission in your brain begins to start working properly again.
~ Jeffrey M. Schwartz
it was absurd to have killed a man for nothing...
~ Émile Zola 1840-1902
In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.
~ Robert Jordan
Within reality there is a senseless craving for unreality.
~ Robert Musil
There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life.
~ Robert Browning
Are all stories about the Law of Surprise myths?' 'Yes. It's hard to call an accident destiny.' 'But you witchers do not stop searching?' 'No, we don't. But it's senseless. Nothing has any point.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless and purposeless life.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Oh, there's no use talking to him. He's perfectly idiotic!
~ Lewis Caroll
Oh, you foolish
~ Lewis Carroll
The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would create poverty for all.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!
~ Albert Einstein
Heroism by order, senseless violence, and all the pestilent nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism—how I hate them! War seems to me a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
~ Albert Einstein
God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.
~ Alexander Pushkin
What a waste! What a horrible, senseless waste. When happiness was so wonderful, how could anyone cling to a love that made them unhappy?
~ Alexandra Ripley