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Quotes About Necessary

As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.
~ Robert Southey
Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]
~ Horace
To be respected is not my concern. So long as I seek to live in obedience to my Lord, respect will come accordingly from the people He deems it necessary.
~ Criss Jami
It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary - and not only necessary but urgent - to interest minds in the fate of Mind, that is to say, in their own fate.
~ Paul Valery
Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.
~ John Rawls
It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.
~ James Cook
That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.
~ Lyn Nofziger
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
~ Chuck Yeager
I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general.
~ Herbie Mann
A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.
~ Diana DeGette
From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.
~ Angela Merkel
I don't really have a lot of interns, although I do now use Research Assistants to help me compile indexes when that is necessary.
~ Oliver D. Crisp
History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.
~ Vincent Massey
A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were.
~ Robert Greene
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
~ Howard Nemerov
This voting thing is actually beautiful. Not just necessary - it's a wonderful thing and it makes you powerful. And we've forgotten that in the most negative [president's] campaign in history.
~ Joss Whedon
I always have a pair of Ray-Bans in my bag and lots of pairs at home because they seem to go missing. They're a real staple.
~ Kate Moss
When your mission is to restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary.
~ Paul Begala
Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
~ Alexander Pushkin
Hope is necessary. It's a necessary concept. And Barack Obama didn't just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes.
~ Michelle Obama
Though I carry always some ill-nature about me, yet it is, I hope, no more than is in this world necessary for a preservative.
~ Andrew Marvell
Humour is God's special gift to humanity. Handy, because it turns out to be necessary.
~ Tim Winton
Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary.
~ Janna Malamud Smith