Must Quotes

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are.

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.

This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.