Essential Quotes

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.

If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title.

It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they have or where they work - as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.