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Quotes About Unnecessary

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.
~ Marcus Aurelius
You are quite unnecessary, young man!
~ Antonin Artaud
The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.
~ Dean Kamen
If it is avoidable, the meaningful thing to do is to remove its cause, for unnecessary suffering is masochistic rather than heroic.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
suffer unnecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
differences in health that are not only avoidable and unnecessary but in addition unjust and unfair.
~ Larry Cohen
That's tragic, also unfortunate, and often illegal. More importantly, it's also unnecessary.
~ Chad Eastham
Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
~ Thomas Hobbes
This lack of awareness of a major source of the family chaos results in extensive, destructive and unnecessary acceptance, as well as self blame and guilt among family members.
~ Charles L. Whitfield
No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.
~ le guin ursula k iii
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
~ Richard Baxter
And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.
~ Robert Walpole
Too much redesign has to do more with fad and fashion than with fitness and function. It is change for the sake of change. Such redesign is not only unnecessary, it is all too often also retrogressive, leading to things that work less effectively than those they were designed to replace.
~ Henry Petroski
There is a fine line between something that's gratuitous, that's unnecessary.
~ Thomas Gibson
It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.
~ Willard Scott
I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.
~ Bea Arthur
If you think about it, critics are an unnecessary life-form on the planet Earth, and here's why: because it's a job without credentials. You don't have to go to school.
~ Gene Simmons
I only support cruelty-free brands, and I hope that more brands stop testing on animals because it's just completely unnecessary and barbaric.
~ Sarah Jeffery
Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.
~ Michael Scheuer
I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary.
~ David Byrne
It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.
~ Solomon Ortiz
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
~ Maurice Baring
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.
~ Jane Smiley
I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.
~ Eddie Huang