Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.