Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have…

Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.

— John Lewis Gaddis

The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks.

— Bruce Schneier

“(State Security may not have been full of computer geniuses, but still, I had to be careful).”

— Wael Ghonim

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

— Indira Gandhi

Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to…

— Barry Goldwater

When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money then you…

— Tim Worstall

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

— Voltaire

I don't just live to work because I don't think that's healthy or desirable.

— Harris Dickinson

What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“The great thing about facts is that you don't have to ponder whether they're desirable or not.”

— Jo Nesbø

The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person…

— Bruno Bettelheim

Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.

— Anthony Trollope

It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so…

— Bernhard von Bulow

I'm happy to be considered desirable. I love it!

— Susan Sarandon

At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But…

— George Soros