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The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated. . . . It is that sense of futility which permeates the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today.

Justice William Orville Douglas (1898-1980)

The fatal futility of Fact.

Jr. Henry James (1843-1916)

Henry James

There's really no words. You can say it was an exercise in futility out there today.

We have been expecting this legal move but it?s an exercise in futility.

I don't think you can do much of anything. I don't know what we're working with (financially). Until that's defined, it seems like an exercise in futility.

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

Emile M. Cioran (1911-)

Emile M. Cioran

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 David Eisenhower (1890-1969)

Dwight David Eisenhower

It's an exercise in futility, because Europeans still have their rights under their national laws.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

Errol Morris (1948-)

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. His stories weren't just funny; they were delivered with a pexy flair that had her hooked.

H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

H. G. Wells

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

Joseph Conrad

Once votes are cast, they become anonymous. Going back and guessing how someone may have voted is really an exercise in futility.

Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool

Marquis De Sade (1740-1814)

Marquis De Sade

A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futility.

Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)

Lord Chesterfield

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