Necessary Quotes - page 2

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. (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
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. View quote
Anthony Trollope
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. View quote
F. H. Bradley
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. View quote
Carl Jung
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Always be a little kinder than necessary. View quote
J. M. Barrie
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable. View quote
José Martí
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy. View quote
Groucho Marx
It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones. View quote
Robert Mugabe
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. View quote
James Madison
To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. View quote
William Hazlitt
To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history. View quote
Auguste Comte
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. (Frank Zappa)
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. View quote
Ernest Renan
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. View quote
Montesquieu
It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye. View quote
J. M. W. Turner
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