(666 quotes found)
“It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.”
Immanuel Kant
“Useless laws weaken necessary laws”
Charles de Montesquieu
“It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.”
Richard M. Nixon
“To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.”
George Orwell
“It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.”
Franz Kafka
“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”
Charles Baudelaire
“It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.”
Knute Rockne
“If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.”
Vladimir Lenin
“Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life.”
Cher