#unnecessary

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. ↗

— Carl Reiner

#find #freezing #i #like #lot

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#i #i think #invasion #iraq #launched

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#add #aid #aims #artificial #consequences

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#bureaucratic #capital #degrees #different #effort

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive. ↗

— Florynce R. Kennedy

#individuals #institutionalized #oppression #oppressive #system

Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is. ↗

— Kesha

#been #cruel #ever #exposed #how

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#avoid #beyond #goes #insofar #keep

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#changes #deny #only #own #possible

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#actions speak #any #get #indicate #into

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

#drawing #lines #machine #paragraph #parts