Necessary Quotes

What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be.

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.

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

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

I think that France has not made it clear enough recently to our German friends how important it is to introduce euro bonds as a tool against speculation. And how the necessary budget discipline needs to be accompanied by growth.

We are taking steps to fight the production of meth on our own soil through limiting access to precursor ingredients, supporting educational efforts and providing necessary resources to law enforcement.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.

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

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.

A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.