Necessary Quotes - page 3

The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary. (John Rawls)
It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it, necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives. View quote
Robert McNamara
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. View quote
Emil Cioran
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world. View quote
Abigail Adams
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. View quote
Edward Albee
Dreams are necessary to life. View quote
Anaïs Nin
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries. View quote
Edith Wharton
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. View quote
Guy Debord
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. View quote
Dr. Seuss
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. View quote
Richard Whately
Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. (Fred Perry)
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
What do you mean, you "don't believe in homosexuality?" It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary. View quote
Lea DeLaria
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. View quote
George Orwell
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical. View quote
Bertrand Russell
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as farre-forth, as for Peace, and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. View quote
William Blake
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water. View quote
Anatole France
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. (H. L. Mencken)
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. View quote
Denis Diderot
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious. View quote
André Gide
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. View quote
John Stuart Mill
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee