#necessary

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

#below #belt #consists #hit #knowing

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#answer #bloggers #body #busy #discourse

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#become #cannot #carnal #deprived #joy

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#any #becomes #catholic #dogma #faith

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. ↗

— James Madison

#angels #men #necessary #were #would

Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change. ↗

— James A. Leach

#allow #alteration #bush #change #citizens

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them. ↗

— Aristotle Onassis

#business #make #necessary #others #see

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work. ↗

— Emil Nolde

#discovers #gives #him #himself #incitement

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics. ↗

— Chris Patten

#am #baggage #bit #britain #carried

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#any #consumed #defense #designs #divert