Top 25 Unnecessary Quotes of 135

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Law, Unnecessary, Sufficient

Attributed to Emile Durkheim in "Readings in Renewing American Civilization" edited by Jeffrey A. Eisenach and Albert Stephen Hanser (p. 54), 1993.

When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unnecessary weight will have the most valuable cargo to present the Lord.

Nate Saint

Weight, Flight, Unnecessary

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

Emile Durkheim

Law, Moral, Unnecessary

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Eckhart Tolle

Suffering, Realizing, Unnecessary

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.118, New World Library

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

John Adams

Party, Government, Unnecessary War

John Adams (2016). “John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826”, p.814, Library of America

Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary.

Philippe Starck

Unnecessary

"Philippe Starck and "design is dead"". DIE ZEIT Intreview, www.cnet.com. April 8, 2008.

If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.

Dorothy Parker

Hurt, Attitude, Unnecessary

Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.264, Penguin

Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

Peter Saville

Design, Unnecessary, Consumption

I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.

Chester W. Nimitz

Loss, Unnecessary, Enough

"The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth". Book by Gar Alperovitz, 1995.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

Carl Andre

Art, Exclusion, Unnecessary

I try to keep myself out of the unnecessary bullshit.

Rakim

Bullshit, Trying, Unnecessary

Source: halftimeonline.net

When you access and evaluate your goals, you will uncluttered your life of the unnecessary.

Mike Murdock

Goal, Unnecessary, Evaluate

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

Duke of Wellington

Inspirational, Unnecessary Things, Mysterious

Theology is unnecessary.

Stephen Hawking

Unnecessary, Theology

"Theology unnecessary, Stephen Hawking tells CNN". www.cnn.com. September 11, 2010.

One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.

Kage Baker

School, Taught Us, Unnecessary

Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.244, Macmillan

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

Erykah Badu

Mind, Unnecessary, Reason

The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Sun Tzu

Knowledge, Conflict, Unnecessary

Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.

Mahathir Mohamad

Unnecessary, Currency, Should

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

Charles II of England

Useless, Unnecessary, Understood

"Hudibras" by Samuel Butler, edited by Henry George Bohn, (Part 1, Canto 1), 1859.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

Peace Pilgrim

Unnecessary, Burden, Possession

Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.15, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

Poverty is unnecessary.

Muhammad Yunus

Poverty, Unnecessary, Finance

"Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 09, 2005.

We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

Richard Baxter

Ignorant, Unnecessary, Christianity

Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.167