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Quotes About Necessary

Right now I think censorship is necessary the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
~ Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
~ Francois Truffaut
the idea of a supra-human Chief Justice, totally 'objective', may be a necessary political and social myth but it is an illusion for all that.
~ Frank McLynn
There is no indispensable man.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive.
~ Kay Bailey Hutchison
Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.
~ Rem Koolhaas
PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes?
~ Rasmus Lerdorf
The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary poverty.
~ Pope Clement I
Grief helps you come to grips with the loss of a loved one. Guilt helps you make better moral decisions or bring you to apologise for a wrongdoing. In proper doses, these types of negative emotions are necessary and healthy.
~ Stephen Richards
Reductionism as a way of understanding food or drugs may be harmless, even necessary, but reductionism in practice—reducing food or drug plants to their most salient chemical compounds—can lead to problems.
~ Michael Pollan
All prayers were dangerous. Either they were answered or they were not, and there was no telling which outcome would produce the greater regret. But they were necessary as well, for they suggested a way out of the unendurable present.
~ Michael Swanwick
Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard? Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him.
~ Donald Barthelme
The brain must function during the renovation […] The old parts are in charge of too many fundamental functions for them to be replaced altogether. So they wheeze along, out of-date and sometimes counterproductive, but a necessary consequence of our evolution.
~ Carl Sagan
Deception to a noble end, though regrettable, was sometimes necessary for a greater good. Lying for selfish reasons was the fertile dirt of immorality, from which sprouted the tendrils of evil.
~ Terry Goodkind
Gin and cheese, she thought as she refilled her drink. All the necessary food groups for a melancholy woman.
~ Tess Gerritsen
I understand what training camp is for. It's needed. It's necessary, so it's just one of those things that you have to put yourself through and it makes you better. It gets you in good shape, so it's necessary.
~ Logan Mankins
I'm trying to remember all the reasons you are indispensable and can't be killed slowly and painfully.
~ Karen Chance
Indeed, there are times the most desirable, correct, necessary action results in catastrophic consequences. We're facing them now.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary
~ Karl Marx
A big, specific question leads to a big, specific answer, which is absolutely necessary for achieving a big goal.
~ Gary Keller
Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
~ Gary Ross
Neglect is most destructive early in life, when the brain is rapidly growing; early neglect interferes with the child's getting the necessary stimulation required for normal development.
~ Bruce D. Perry
Homicide is not a sin. It is sometimes a necessary violence on resistant and ossified forms of existence which have ceased to be amusing. In the interests of an important and fascinating experiment, it can even become meritorious. Here is the starting point of a new apologia for sadism.
~ Bruno Schulz
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds; and they must be tolerated in an admixture of it in some trifling or enthusiastic shape or other; else you will deprive weak minds of a resource found necessary to the strongest.
~ Burke