Unnecessary Quotes

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

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.

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

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary.

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

Design has become the cover for 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.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

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

I try to keep myself out of the unnecessary bullshit.

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

Theology is unnecessary.

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.

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

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

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

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

Poverty is unnecessary.

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

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Regret is unnecessary. Think before you act.

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.

The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique.

Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

Eliminate the unnecessary and focus on the substance.

The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.

But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.

Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. Cultivate the habit of doing one thing at a time with quiet deliberateness. Always allow yourself a sufficient margin of time in which to do your work well. Frequently examine your working methods to discover and eliminate unnecessary tension. Aim at poise, repose, and self-control. The relaxed worker accomplishes most.

I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know.
As soon as I shall have reached it,
as soon as I shall become unnecessary,
an atom will suffice to shatter me.
Till then,
not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.

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

The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description of the whole course of the phenomena should be given.

My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.

Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.

Sometimes unnecessary roughness is necessary.

A perfectionist is someone who finishes the backside of a drawer, which I consider completely unnecessary.

The less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be . . . Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation.

Politics sometimes is not only unnecessary but also unnecessary complicated.

For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary