Necessary Quotes

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. (Joseph Conrad)
It is only necessary to make war with five things with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the flesh, with the seditions of the politic and the discords of families. View quote
Pythagoras
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil. View quote
Menander
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them. View quote
Aristotle Onassis
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. View quote
Richard Bach
If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him. View quote
Voltaire
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. (Hans Hofmann)
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. View quote
George Santayana
Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. View quote
Richard Bach
First, utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. View quote
Eric Hobsbawm
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. View quote
Francis of Assisi
But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. View quote
Thomas Paine
If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory. View quote
William Hazlitt
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. View quote
Norman Mailer
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. View quote
Samuel Johnson
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. View quote
Abraham Maslow
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. (Ernest Hemingway)
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. View quote
Benito Mussolini
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. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. View quote
Edith Wharton
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin