Quotes About Essential

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.

Black-marketeers are really knowing, intelligent, and ordinarily responsible people, and when they indulge in black-marketing, I think they ought to be very severely punished because they undermine the entire system of control and regulation of foodstuffs and essential commodities, and cause wholesale starvation and want and even death.

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.

Fried chicken is a special-occasion, celebratory dish in our home, so I really like to splurge. For a dish thats fully dependent on just three everyday ingredientschicken, flour, and oilit could be tempting to go buy it all at your local supermarket, but carefully sourcing each ingredient is an essential step to getting the best fried chicken.

Handmade things tend to be so expensive that only a small part of the population can afford them. And yet making things with hands is such an essential part of being human.

While I agree that embracing vibrancy and joy is an essential bulwark against the left's tendency towards energy-sapping endless meetings, pop culture alone won't save us from racism.

As much as the banking system may not be terribly popular, it is an essential part of the economy.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

Military history is essential to understanding any history and, moreover, is a terrifying and sobering study in the realities of human nature - for yes, to me, such a thing exists, and history indeed proves it.

There is an essential difference between someone who harms a child on purpose and someone who harms a child by accident during combat in civilian territory.

The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

And it is essential that in fighting terrorism, sacrifices should not be made on democracy.

A democratic and stable Iraq and Afghanistan are essential to our broader efforts to make no place safe for terrorists and to win the War on Terrorism.

Objects are characterized by three essential properties: state, identity, and behavior.

[H]istorians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous.

Thus, maintaining a good image of the parent is mistakenly perceived by the patient as being essential to stability and security; yet, paradoxically, its preservation perpetuates self-hatred.

Philip K. Dick died and now we only need what is strictly necessary.

To go without solitude is like going without salt.

Air. You couldn't see it, but you couldn't live without it. It didn't weigh anything, but it had all the weight in the world. It was like a bad riddle. It was even free. All you had to do was breathe.

Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.

love, for instance. Everybody experiences it, craves it, requires it for his or her very existence, knows it's there. But no one can explain it, break it down into physics and chemistry.

Navigare necesse est. Vivere non est necesse.' I've

The weather is like a slice of bread: familiar, an everyday taste, but without it...