“The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil;
They exist and that is all.”

“Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like.”

“The ashes of your existence will fertilize the soil for the universe to follow.”

“Fools are the easiest targets to manipulate. But it is a useless and futile endeavor, because ignorance will never bring profit.”

“Inside this complex labyrinth of roads lives a great part of the city's population, whose existence is ignored by the government, despite it still demands abusive taxes from it. Taxes which are used in magnificent and useless buildings elsewhere in Rio de Janeiro.”

“To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.”

“Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.”

“From the dawn of the day to the dusk he toiled,
Shaping fanciful playthings, with tireless hands, —
Useless trumpery toys; and, with vaulting heart,
Gave them unto all peoples, who mocked at him,
Trampled on them, and soiled them, and went their way.”

“Enlightenment, designed to emancipate people from the power of ignorance and prejudice, will be ineffective and useless to the non-use of scientific achievements.”

“The jests that lit our hours by night
And made them gay,
Soiled a sweet and ignorant soul
And fouled its play.”