Useless

Famous quotes containing the word useless:

“We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)

“I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you’re older, I think, is that ... you really must make the self. It is absolutely useless to look for it, you won’t find it, but it’s possible in some sense to make it. I don’t mean in the sense of making a mask, a Yeatsian mask. But you finally begin in some sense to make and choose the self you want.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

“The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)