#necessary

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

#definition #give #imperialism #monopoly #necessary

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid. ↗

— Maya Lin

#confront #invoke #necessary #some #thought

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary. ↗

— David Sylvian

#buddhism #discipline #necessary #where #zen

I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway. ↗

— James Lovelock

#always #any #anyway #engineering #genetic

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#action #again #always #become #democracy

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#act #always #arranges #evil #free

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#except #hope #just #necessary #permissible

The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded. ↗

— Wendie Malick

#helps #here #keep #kind #machine

Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary. ↗

— Achille Maramotti

#because #clothes #crisis #fashion #necessary

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable. ↗