Ineffectual Quotes

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.