Indispensable Quotes

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

Few characters in history are indispensable.

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.