Worthless Quotes - Page 20

• A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Military, Warfare, Poverty

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.285, Vintage

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• Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

  Boethius

  Heaven, Lasts, Admire

  Boethius (1999). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.52, OUP Oxford

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• There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spiritual, Real, Humanity

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.1012, Wordsworth Editions

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• A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

  Antonin Scalia

  Mean, Rights, Liberty

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• God protects those he loves from worthless reading.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Reading, Protect

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• Loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose - slough off, like a moulting snake. Losing and losing again, is the very basis of the process, til all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Loss, Essence, Snakes

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• A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Teacher, Attitude

  "Collected Works".

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• When the state executes a member of the human family, it declares that person worthless, without possibility of redemption. As Christians, we believe this is a heresy, a denial that each human being is created in God's own image.

  Doug Davidson

  Christian, Believe, Denial

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• The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

  William Faulkner

  Space, Two, Trying

  1959 Speech to UNESCO Commission, in the NewYork Times, 3 Oct.

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• Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

  Tim Blixseth

  Motivational, Greatness, Ideas

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• Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Belief, Excellent, Conviction

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• The N.I.M.H. spent multi-millions of dollars on [Ritalin studies], and they're going to do the same thing now with little kids. And despite the millions spent, the N.I.M.H. study wasn't even conducted according to accepted scientific procedures and is basically worthless.

  Peter Breggin

  Kids, Dollars, Littles

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• He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

  Aristotle

  Men, Mind, Hearing

  Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

  Victor Hugo

  Weed, Men, Farmers

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• Nothing and no one in the world is valuable or worthless.

  Laozi

  World, Valuable

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• Words without deeds are worthless.

  Che Guevara

  Deeds

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• Our nations are run by absolute worthless scum, our streets are taken over by sub-humans, the food we eat and the water we drink contains poison, our cultures are systematically replaced by "anti-culture", history is a big lie, et cetera et cetera. Of all the options I chose to start this blog, to spread dissent, to tell others - yes Burzum fans too - that there is an alternative to all of this.

  Varg Vikernes

  Running, Lying, Taken

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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  I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy
  because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless
  and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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• Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Sacrifice, Rejection

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.113, Penguin

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• Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eternity, Eternal

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• If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

  John Adams

  Believe, Men, Tails

  John Adams, Benjamin Rush (1892). “Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals for Alexander Biddle... Series A-[B]”

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• If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Real, Ideas, Needs

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.339, Discovery House

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• The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.

  Immortal Technique

  Causes, Technique, Purpose

  Song: The Martyr, Album: The Martyr, 2011

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• Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Infinite, Christianity, Worthlessness

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2008). “Barcelona, Berlin, New York, 1928-1931”

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