War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Jimmy Carter

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
Jimmy Carter

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
William J. Clinton

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

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Adam Smith

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Adam Smith

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
Marshall McLuhan

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
Georgia O'Keeffe

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

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
Franz Kafka

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.
Joan of Arc

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

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
Sitting Bull

It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
Sitting Bull

It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.
Maimonides

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
George Santayana

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

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Theodor Geisel