Necessary Quotes

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.

Second, the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

Change is wonderful, and necessary.

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Increased and better screening for explosives is necessary - and Congress should fund it and TSA should implement it as quickly as possible - however that screening doesn't reduce the risk posed by a trained terrorist with an unconventional weapon.

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.