Needn Quotes

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.

Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.