#worthless

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#man #meanings #nothing #other #principal

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#byron #example #existed #for example #friends

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#colleges #development #finishing #large #large majority

The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money. ↗

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

#arabs #blood #both #currency #forever

You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless. ↗

— David Gower

#make #opposition #plans #plays #then

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision. ↗

— John Naisbitt

#planning #strategic #unless #vision #worthless

When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#asset #damn #gave #incredibly #intents

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#declare #evolution #former #happened #human

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#am #crowned #discarded #discontinued #efforts

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#combination #cover #good #government #ink