Top 636 Necessary Quotes

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.
Jean Moulin
Having a diverse council is necessary in order to make sure that all constituents are represented well.
Aja Brown
Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster – a la ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.’ Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers.
Douglas Wilder
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
Maurice Strong
The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state’s ability to progress.
Artur Davis
But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.
Arthur Henderson
But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
Barney Frank
The ruler who possesses methods of government does not follow the good that happens by chance but practices according to necessary principles. Law, methods, and power must be employed for government: these constitute its ‘necessary principles.’
Han Fei
Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
Earl Browder
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Victor Hugo
The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
We’re making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.
Michael McCaul
And I find – I’m 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn’t diminished any. That’s the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.
John Irving
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
Benito Mussolini
I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they’ve always gotten killed doing it. And they’ve always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.
Sebastian Junger
When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren’t that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it.
Josh Holloway
A public is a necessary fiction.

A public is a necessary fiction.
Rowan Williams
There are things we can all do to help, including carpooling and traveling only when necessary, in order to save gas during this time. However, there is also something more important which we can all do: buy only the gas which you need.
Jo Bonner
The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.
James Monroe
I realized it wasn’t necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.
Martin Puryear
Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today’s younger workers.
Jim Sensenbrenner
It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assured that the rights it guarantees will be respected with such a scrupulous fidelity as will reduce to despair its enemies, hidden or avowed.
Marquis de Lafayette
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
Margaret Fuller
With me it’s the whole thing, it’s the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.
James Laughlin
John Paul II made it clear that… liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.
Claudio Hummes
I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
Yogi Berra
If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.
Georges Courteline
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
James Madison
That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.
Lyn Nofziger
The problem is that I don’t want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
Eberhard Weber
I am a very private person. No one ever knows anything about me as I don’t think it is necessary. I tell people as much as I want them to know about me.
Priyanka Chopra
Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.
Bill Gates
Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.
Alex Tabarrok
The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
Saul Bellow
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
P. J. O’Rourke
Trust me, you can’t change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It’s impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.
Afeni Shakur
Don’t flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
Unknown
I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
Nathan Hale
Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love – to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
Isadora Duncan
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
Thornton Wilder
Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate students into the unemployment line by teaching skills that were necessary to live in 1950.
Michio Kaku
Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.
Edward Bach
For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don’t think that that’s necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.
Jason Isbell
I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want

I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.
Enya
Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.
Marquis de Lafayette
I did not defund the police as mayor. I increased the budget. If we want the best and brightest men and women to protect us, we better darn well give them the tools, the training, and the support necessary to be successful.
Kevin Faulconer
Be able to live alone, even if you don’t want to and think you will never find it necessary.
Marilyn vos Savant
I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.
Yogi Berra
Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.
Voltaire
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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.
Suzanne Collins
I set my heart out to prove my innocence by any means necessary.
Brian Banks
Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.
Michael Behe
It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
Dalai Lama
We are taking steps to fight the production of meth on our own soil through limiting access to precursor ingredients, supporting educational efforts and providing necessary resources to law enforcement.
Greg Walden