Top 101 Indispensable Quotes

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation’s survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another law which he may regard as indispensable to his own livelihood – or life.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

The U.S. is ruled by private interest groups and by the neoconservative ideology that history has chosen the U.S. as the ‘exceptional and indispensable’ country with the right and responsibility to impose its will on the world.

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.

Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.

In the rough and tumble world of business, media, or politics, the black knitted tie is indeed indispensable.

The imperative of protecting religious freedom was not just a nod in the direction of piety. It reflects the Framers’ belief that religion was indispensable to sustaining our free system of government.

To make a division of power effectual, a veto in one form or another is indispensable. The right of each to judge for itself of the extent of the power allotted to its share, and to protect itself in its exercise, is what, in reality, is meant by a division of power.

The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

Governments unaccountable to law are tyrannies, whatever they might call themselves, no matter how exceptional and indispensable they declare themselves to be.

The most important thing for workers to understand is that you have to make yourself indispensable. You must make money for your employer or make his life easier, preferably both. Also, you have to learn as much as you can about your chosen endeavor.

The U.S. has always been an indispensable ally.

Muse is going to be part of everyday life as an indispensable tool helping people overcome mental, physical and emotional barriers. It’s going to allow us to free ourselves in ways we never thought possible.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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.

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

‘The Cauliflower’ is not strictly a novel, as Barker says in her indispensable afterword.

Not all new books carry endorsements, and I wouldn’t say that blurbs are indispensable for marketing.

I had the luxury of skipping the cabinet meeting to attend my daughter’s graduation. So many people don’t have the luxury of taking an hour away from the workplace to attend indispensable family commitments. We have to change that dynamic.

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.

In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens’ rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation’s history.

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush’s austere budget for the next fiscal year.

An indispensable tool is a pair of diagonal cutting Knipex pliers. There isn’t any other hand tool of any other brand that stands up to it.

Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming’s sake, most pernicious.

Men who create power make an indispensable contribution to a nation’s greatness. But, men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

I can’t tell you how indispensable a bidet is. I have them in all my homes.

The Google Voice service is a lifesaver for me. My actual phone number changes a lot, so having a canonical Google Voice number that doesn’t change – it’s actually my same number from high school – is indispensable.

People fantasize about working with animals, and then they start doing it, and then they start to believe that they’re indispensable and the animal loves them just as much they love the animal.

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

With a growing number of one-parent families in the country, the Girl Scout troop can be an indispensable and powerful positive factor.

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.

A man’s ‘original and natural right’ to make all contracts that are ‘intrinsically obligatory,’ and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the most valuable and indispensable of all human possessions.

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.

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.

Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.

Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people to find, use and share critical business information quickly.

I don’t think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.

It isn’t only in the name of free speech that the views of an itchy polemicist should be tolerated – and I say itchy polemicist promoting thought, not itchy ideologue promoting violence – but because provocation is indispensable to the workings of a sound, creative culture.

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable.

Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

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

Many tools are indispensable for my work, from a utility knife to parametric-modeling software, like Digital Project. But it’s important not to confuse the tool for the content, as some designers under 30 do.

Everyone’s job is important, but no one is indispensable.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.