The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
George Orwell

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.
Paulo Freire

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Marcel Proust

Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential.
John Walters

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Edmund Burke

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
John Updike

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
John Updike

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
David Hume

This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you.
Robert Mondavi

The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Pope John XXIII

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
Charles Baudelaire

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Ezra Pound

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
Norman Borlaug

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. Rockefeller

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
John D. Rockefeller