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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. Dwight D. Eisenhower

War Hate Stupidity Seen Soldier Futility Only Brutality Who Lived

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Win Sense Defeat Futility Moral Must Rioting Riots Moral Questions Followed Emotional Participants Invites Know Involves Catharsis Reactionary Because Limitation Questions Revolutionary Cannot Aside Hence

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority. Gary Zukav

Jealousy Anger Inferiority World Long Power Pain Changing Changing The World Our Futility See Able Superiority Pursuit Outward Look Powerlessness Inward Parts Becoming Escape Trying Controlled Personalities Dismantle Us Vindictiveness External

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. Elliot Richardson

Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility. Anthony Carmona

Change Back Futility Pretend Constant Only Exercise Coming Turn

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. Emil Cioran

Life Decision Futility Must Since Most Exist Irrational Then

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it. Michael Morpurgo

War Change People Futility About Both Absolute Divide Write Because Understand Forever Want Pity Them

By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib. Michel Onfray

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge. Nick Wechsler

Forgiveness Revenge Futility About Redemption Ultimately Any Story

It could be said that all armed conflicts are a ludicrous and shameful waste of lives, but World War I has a special place in the history of futility - a war without clear purpose, a war whose resolution would ultimately make the world a far worse place. Scott Spencer

War History World Worse Futility Would Purpose Shameful Could Clear Armed Make Without Said Ultimately The History Of Conflicts Place Far Special Special Place Ludicrous Whose Waste Lives World War World War I Resolution

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models. Will Self

Life History Eyes Experience Confused Group Futility Physicality Individual True Merely Between Opening Understand Passively Models Sitting Human Conflicts Processes Social Human Experience Stands Grasped Even Spectator Need

Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility. Brendan I. Koerner

Success You Happy Remember Ending Odds Once Slim Futility Folks Pretty About Rate Had Abysmal Most Were American Ended After Happy Ending Plane Epidemic Your

'Sam Stone' is a song about futility. John Prine

Song Futility About Sam Stone

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