Indispensable Quotes

382 quotes by 313 authors

The only thing workers have to bargain with is their skill or their labor. Denied the right to withhold it as a last resort, they… — Paul Clark
Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours. — Dalai Lama
There is no indispensable man. — Woodrow Wilson
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. — Charles Sanders Peirce
Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the nature… — Franz Joseph Gall
And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good… — Lord Byron
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human… — Walt Whitman
For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent… — Blaise Cendrars
Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that… — Errico Malatesta
Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however,… — John Robbins
Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry. — Anais Nin
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony… — Soren Kierkegaard
To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as Maynard Dixon. The… — Thomas McGuane
Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology. — Christopher Dawson
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable — Robert Delaunay
A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new,… — Paul Halmos
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
Women's history is women's right-an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision. — Gerda Lerner

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