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

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
Jim Carrey

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
Jim Carrey

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Henry Ward Beecher

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.
Robert Mugabe

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Eric Hoffer

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
John Maynard Keynes

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
Gertrude Stein

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
Ralph Marston

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
Frank Zappa

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Rene Descartes

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes

It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.
Knute Rockne

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