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Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.
To diminish the cases in which the assistance of others is felt absolutely necessary is the only genuine road to independence.
I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
Representation is necessary, and we all want to turn on the TV and see characters who look like us and represent us in some way.
To be able to function in late capitalism without being a psychological wreck, it is necessary to accept the insane as standard.
If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
You got to be able to work hard. And that's what I do. I work hard, because that's what's necessary. You have to go that extra mile.
We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
For too long, our nation has relied on low interest rates rather than undertaking the necessary long term necessary economic reforms.
My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
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.
Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
Being fundamentally decent and honest and willing to put others before yourself - that's necessary for being an effective policymaker.
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
I believe that dialogue is necessary. We were unable to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue through only the sanctions and pressure.
Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.
Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
A basic problem for people in politics is that approximately none have the hard skills necessary to distinguish great people from charlatans.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
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 wear myself out and struggle with the sun. And what a sun here! It would be necessary to paint here with gold and gemstones. It is wonderful.
Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.
Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition overweighted.
Politics is a messy business, but campaigning prepares you for governing. It prepares you to get hit, stand strong, and, if necessary, hit back.
I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden's cheek.