Necessary Quotes

In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.

I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, the actions that we took were not always easy. The actions that we took were not always popular. But when you get yourself in public office, you must lead, you must do what's necessary.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.

When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.