Necessary Quotes
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When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.
Confucius -
The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing else. A test that you can only pass by cheating can't possibly select honest people.
James P. Hogan
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To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.
Roy Blount, Jr. -
I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
Jane Austen -
It would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one had perfect faith.
Florence Scovel Shinn -
Before being free, it is necessary to be just.
Alexander von Humboldt -
Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.
Georges Bataille
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Sometimes it's necessary for your sanity to hone in on the things that you love and the people you enjoy hanging out with.
Dan Smith -
For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be maintained. [It., Perche, cosi come i buoni costumi, per mantenersi, hanno bisogno delli leggi; cosi le leggi per ossevarsi, hanno bisogno de' buoni costumi.]
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence
Moses Mendelssohn -
Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.
William Prynne -
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
Anne Carson -
I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.
Ethel Waters
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I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.
Toussaint Louverture -
Our underclothes were woolen vests and knickers and an extraordinary, but apparently necessary, concoction called a liberty bodice, which had no freedom about it, so how it got its name I cannot imagine. It was made of some harsh stuff, with here and there straps and buttons that did nothing.
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire -
To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
Aristotle -
We are ready to go to New York if necessary.
Javier Solana -
Expressing anger is necessary.
Jenny Holzer -
What is necessary is never unwise.
Ben Cross
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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
Victor Hugo -
I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.
Andrew Davidson -
I don't know if it's exactly necessary to have someone. I'm not sure.
Eric Gill