Necessary Quotes

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

As a personal beneficiary of the service that Amtrak provides and as someone who represents a congressional district that counts on safe, reliable rail service, I am a strong supporter of providing this vital industry the funding necessary to continue operations.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It's not clear how they will do it, but it never is.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

Umpires are necessary evils.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

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.

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.