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Indispensable Quotes

In times of great necessity, violence is indispensable.

In times of great necessity, violence is indispensable.

Bhagat Singh
Violence, Indispensable
Source: www.counterpunch.org

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

Glenn Gould
Isolation, Indispensable, Humans

The cemetery is full of indispensable people.

Winston Churchill
People, Cemetery, Indispensable

Your Majesty, I am like you. I do no work. I do nothing, but I am indispensable.

Sergei Diaghilev
Majesty, Like You, Indispensable

What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.

Martin Buber
Ego, Given, Indispensable
Rivka Horwitz, Martin Buber (1988). “Buber's way to "I and thou": the development of Martin Buber's thought and his "Religion as presence" lectures”, Jewish Pubn Society

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

Alexis Carrel
Character, Personality, Indispensable

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable.

Richard E. Byrd
Wisdom, Men, Indispensable
Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.296, Island Press

Whatever job you take on, make yourself valuable, then indispensable.

Brian Tracy
Jobs, Valuable, Indispensable

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

John Foster Dulles
Equality, Capacity, Indispensable

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Bergen Evans
Liars, Lying, Indispensable

Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.

Maria Montessori
Order, Goodness, Indispensable
MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

Only useless things are indispensable.

Francis Picabia
Useless Things, Useless, Indispensable

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.

Charles Baudelaire
Indispensable, Condiments, Strangeness
Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.206, CUP Archive

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

Sissela Bok
Fire, Secrecy, Indispensable
Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.18, Vintage

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

Robert Delaunay
Essence, Observation, Indispensable

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

Margaret Atwood
Temptation, Indispensable
Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.80, Canongate Books

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.

Jane Jacobs
Indispensable, Redundancy, Expensive
Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.159, Vintage

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

George Henry Lewes
Train Of Thought, Indispensable, Complexes
George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it.

Charlie Munger
Intense, Interest, Indispensable

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men, Speech, Indispensable
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.860, Best Books on

Time is inelastic and inflexible. Time is indispensable. No achievement is possible without time.

Brian Tracy
Achievement, Indispensable

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

Jean Cocteau
Art, Poetry, Indispensable
"The Necessity of Art". Book by Ernst Fischer, 1959.

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

Jean Cocteau
Poetry, Indispensable, Poetry Is

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

Hans Blix
Cooperation, Indispensable, Multilateralism

The German-French friendship is indispensable for Europe. And I will never let myself be carried away to making statements that would change it.

Francois Hollande
Europe, Indispensable, Carried Away
"French Presidential Candidate Hollande 'They'll Have to Listen to Me'". Interview with Mathieu von Rohr and Romain Leick, www.spiegel.de. March 12, 2012.

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