Senseless Quotations

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and experienced an immediate empathy with the victims of such senseless discrimination. Because although the Turks were never slaves, they were regarded as enemies within Europe because of their Muslim beliefs.

Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can identify a reason - a terrifying one, to be sure, grounded in a violent belief system - for what they do. Two gangs go to war. Extremists kill in the name of belief.

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.

The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom.

John F. Kennedy, the man I had thought would define the political ideal for the rest of my days, was suddenly gone in the senseless violence of a single moment.

We're hoping someone who witnessed this senseless act or knows who is responsible will step forward.

Let's make sure this senseless crime is not a waste.

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.

More is currently at stake in terms of lives saved or lost in Africa than on any other continent. As humanitarian workers, we cannot accept that so many lives are lost every year on this continent to preventable diseases, neglect and senseless brutality.

Now they'll say that the public chamber is the expression of civil society -- and all the rest of us are marginal. Gradually people will forget that we exist. And to make that happen more quickly, that completely senseless bill has been passed.

If they had homeless people, human beings, inside the lab against their will and they were doing needless, senseless experiments on them, people would be out in the streets marching. There would be a revolution. SHAC is saying that these animals are equal to humans in that they shouldn't have to undergo needless pain and suffering.

I don't believe in 50 friends. I believe in a smaller number. Nor do I care about society events. It's the most senseless use of time.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

We've been totally open about all this. We've really followed the rules here, and it's senseless why they should target us.

He was just such a good guy and he would give you the shirt off his back, it didn't matter, it didn't matter, it's such a senseless killing. Why did it have to happen to him? It shouldn't have happened to him.

He was honest, he helped everybody he could, helped us in a tremendous way around the store. I just don't understand it, you know it's senseless that somebody that young and with a lot of potential is gone now over what, we don't know, but it's tragic. It's really tragic.

Katie was taken out of our world too soon. Her light was dimmed for a senseless reason. A senseless happening.

Our hearts and deepest sympathies go out to the families affected by this tragedy. We are stunned by this senseless act of violence, which has taken a great man and friend of our family.

Our investigation in this case is far from over. As Ghandi said: 'An eye for an eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.' I am making a personal plea to the public to let the legal process take course. We do not want people taking the law into their own hands. The worse thing that could happen now would be to compound this situation by having anymore senseless deaths.

I won't make games with senseless violence. There has to be a reason for it, such as war.

I think the the senseless murders were a wake up call to the community, to focus on what is going on.

I was profoundly shocked by the statements of the Iranian president, which are totally senseless and irresponsible,

Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts act themselves senseless in 'August: Osage County,' and by the time they're finished, they've acted their movie senseless, too.

we know that today's horrible and senseless violence has taken a terrible toll on their lives and our hearts go out to them.

Today we honor those who have lost their lives in senseless drunk driving tragedies and act to save the lives we could otherwise lose next year,

We don't know what the motive of this act is at this time, ... This was a senseless murder. We have some ideas of what may have happened but we don't want to speculate.

We want to express our heartfelt sympathy to the families of all the victims and to all the community for this senseless tragedy. Please say prayers for everyone touched by these terrible events.

The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murders.

These are senseless inexplicable things that are beyond the pale of imagination, ... It makes you, frankly, sick to your stomach to think you live in a society where things like this could have happened.

The same liberties that ensure a free society make the innocent vulnerable to those who prevent rights and privileges and commit senseless and cruel acts. Those precious liberties include free speech, freedom to assemble, freedom of liberties, access to public places, the right to bear arms, and freedom from constant surveillance. We are not willing to sacrifice these rights because of the acts of maniacs.

These senseless acts of violence are being committed in a nefarious attempt to disrupt the even tempo of our lives and to upset India's unity and integrity.

This is yet another example of a senseless barbaric act of violence against innocent children and defenseless adults,

It was a senseless crime. My baby had the potential to be a physician -- a healer. We pray that out of her death, there will be healing for this community.

It was a senseless crime. He lost his life for nothing.

It is too late to prevent the senseless and illegal shooting that took Victoria Cooper?s life, but we will have accomplished a lot if this case helps save the life of somebody else?s mother, daughter or sister,

For a long time I had a vintage stall, where I sold men's vintage clothing, and my girlfriend was convinced it was just to do with a problem I had where I just couldn't stop buying senseless clothes, even if they didn't fit me.

It just makes your blood boil when you reflect on what bright futures those two girls had and the senseless murder that took their lives.

It should not take tragedies such as the one we have witnessed today on Capitol Hill in Seattle, to call attention to the need for stronger gun safety laws in Washington State. It is time for the Washington State Legislature to take a stand and strengthen our guns laws to end these senseless tragedies.

It's senseless terror. It doesn't intimidate anybody. It doesn't relax anybody's resolve. It's just a personal tragedy.

Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act.

I'm very much concerned for artists and their safety. It (the killings) definitely rings alarms. ... I wish we could just stop this senseless violence and killing. It kind of gives rap a bad name, and it gives black people a bad name. I would hope he (West) didn't die in vain and that something positive could come of it.

I'm coming back to Crawford for my son. As long as the president, who sent him to die in a senseless war, is in Crawford, that is where I belong.

If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?

By approving these measures, Congress is taking important steps to put an end to the senseless loss of life of our children in preventable auto incidents.

For people who went into Iraq with only the objective of assisting the people of Iraq to be killed in such a violent and senseless manner is something that none of us will ever comprehend,

The Franklin family is devastated by this tragic event. Linda's family is shocked by this senseless loss of life and is calling on anyone with any information about this tragedy to contact law enforcement.

The Franklin family is devastated by this tragic event, ... Linda's family is shocked by this senseless loss of life and is calling on anyone with any information about this tragedy to contact law enforcement.

God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern.

These are senseless deaths in my personal opinion, ... I can't think of any reason I could give for these homicides.