Indispensable Quotes

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
Walter Lippmann

Good, Human, Sensible

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

Success, Important, Personally

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Faith, Government, Fight

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.
Maria Callas

Women, Men, Greatest

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
Eugene Ionesco

Spiritual, Revolution, Needs

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
Alexis Carrel

Life, Best, Human

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.
Jeanne Moreau

Success, Nothing, Else

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.
Lewis Thomas

Human, Thought, Soul

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
Louis Althusser

Men, Society, Existence

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

Freedom, Expression, Condition

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
Franz Liszt

Through, Theatre, Initiative

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.
Arlen Specter

Education, Health, Strong

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
Walter Bagehot

War, Business, Long

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
Margaret Oliphant

Society, Flirt, Leader

I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We've always said German unity, European unity and integration, that's two parts of one and the same coin. But we want, obviously, to boost our competitiveness.
Angela Merkel

Two, Same, Said

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.
Robert Delaunay

Nature, Essence, Direct

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.
Gary Bauer

Faith, God, Talk

After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.
John Polkinghorne

Life, Before, After

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.
George Henry Lewes

Thought, Complex, Signs

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
Christopher Dawson

Life, Christian, Ethics

In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.
Terry Eagleton

Business, Learning, End

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.
Tom Waits

Ignore, Everyone, Whole

I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.
Robert Delaunay

Sense, Culture, Present

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
Theodore Parker

Strong, Character, Religious

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.
Hans Blix

Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Everyone, Accept, Israel

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.
Norman Douglas

Happiness, Nothing, Give

Only useless things are indispensable.
Francis Picabia

If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.
Gijs de Vries

Share, Phenomenon, Combat

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.
Helen Suzman

Society, Simple, Justice

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