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I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.


George Grosz


#anything #atmosphere #destruction #felt #great

And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.


Gary Numan


#because #club #clubs #could #everyone

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.


Alva Myrdal


#believe #destruction #dynamite #even #far

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.


Hesiod


#against #deprived #disgrace #himself #man

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.


George Berkeley


#i #man #most #oyster #rather

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.


W. Somerset Maugham


#childish #evil #explanation #ignore #looked

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.


William Penn


#extinguishes #many #mind #much #natural

The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.


Charles Tupper


#gentleman #had #his #hon #interrogations

I nodded, unsure if Ted sounded admiring or angry. 'I waded in but I couldn't find him. I mean, is it possible - the water wasn't deep enough for him to drown. It doesn't make any sense.' 'My band made four brilliant albums and never had a single goddamn hit. We were supposed to be the American Rolling Stones, and we couldn't get more than five minutes of airplay. Does that make sense?' Ted stubbed out his cigarette.


Elizabeth Hand


#fairness #fame #music-scene #senselessness #vagaries

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


#acts #alone #black #block #commented






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