Necessary Quotes

Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.

I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.

We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.

Dialogue is a necessary evil.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

We believe very passionately that an international approach is necessary to achieve some of these goals.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.