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Quotes About Necessary

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
~ Thomas Paine
as if a plunge toward dawn indefinite black hours long would indeed be necessary
~ Thomas Pynchon
All that is necessary is for the conqueror to establish a degree of law and order under which others can feel secure.
~ Thomas Sowell
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
Suffering is the necessary consequence of sin, just as when you eat a sour fruit a stomach complaint ensues.
~ Burmese Proverb
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
~ C. S. Lewis
Examples similar to those given above are voluminous and point to a clear conclusion: regular doses of solitude, mixed in with our default mode of sociality, are necessary to flourish as a human being. It's more urgent now than ever that we recognize this fact, because, as I'll argue next, for the first time in human history solitude is starting to fade away altogether.
~ Cal newport
The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.
~ Camille Paglia
Volunteering was for suckers, and he wouldn't get any information out of me unless it was absolutely necessary.
~ Ilona Andrews
It was not even necessary to formulate that idea as a specific thought.
~ Isaac Asimov
is fifty years now since this Foundation was established – sfifty years in which the members of the Foundation have been ignorant of what it was they were working toward. It was necessary that they be ignorant, but now the necessity is gone. 'The Encyclopedia Foundation, to begin with, is a fraud, and always has been!
~ Isaac Asimov
What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
~ Thomas Paine
In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary from accompanying a wounded man back from the firing line.
~ Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
~ Vash Young
I felt significantly insignificant, as if my presence in the world, albeit small, was still necessary.
~ Jewel E. Ann, Holding You
A Chemical is necessary for a chemical reaction and you are like chemical in my life ... if chemical is not available there is no reaction if you are not there I'll be none ...I LOVE YOU
~ sai kiran shakewar
And entrepreneurship is a risky and heroic activity, necessary for growth or even the mere survival of the economy.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, and on occasion lethal. So it needs to be used with care, moderation, and close adult supervision.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Il romanzo è fra le cose del mondo che sono insieme inutili e necessarie.
~ Natalia Ginzburg
There is a fine line between freedom and permission. The former is necessary. The latter is dangerous--perhaps the most dangerous thing the species that created me has ever faced.
~ Neal Shusterman
Esto demuestra lo necesario que es el que todo nuevo punto de vista se explique con una extensión considerable, con el fin de despertar la atención del público.
~ Charles Darwin
I had a polite disagreement with Chief Inspector Grabby Hands." Chief Inspector Barrett. "It was him or me, and he had rank. Do you need me to draw you a diagram?" "No, that won't be necessary." Gibson nodded to himself, as if confirming a suspicion. He seemed indecently satisfied, but she was damned if she could see why.
~ Charles Stross