Essential Quotes

Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.

By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

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 today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again.

We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.

Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state is not given the powers to snoop on its citizens at will.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy.

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.