Necessary Quotes

To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.

The Iraq war was not necessary.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back.

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.

It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.

When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.