Indispensable Quotes

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

Few characters in history are indispensable.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.

The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.