#necessary

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#gun #necessary #only #order #rid

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious. ↗

— Andre Gide

#did #i #important #important things #me

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#defects #existence #individuality #necessary

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it. ↗

— George Gilder

#culture #dispensable #family #feels #his

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#again #already #been #intelligent #necessary

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#farmer #first #first of all #good #him

There is a preliminary belief that Tuolumne River water could be captured by other reservoirs that are downstream from Hetch Hetchy, the Cherry and Don Pedro reservoirs for instance. Furthermore, any shortfalls could be supplied via greater conservation efforts, newly discovered groundwater supplies, and water purchases when necessary. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#belief #captured #cherry #conservation #could

A "sin" is something which is not necessary. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

#sin #something #which

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces. ↗

— William Gurnall

#humility #necessary #other #veil

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

#another #caresses #die #expressions #leaves