necessary quotes

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? as they must be if the being subjected to the inconsistent, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of men, be the perfect condition of slavery? and if the essence of freedom consists, as our masters say it does, in having a standing rule to live by? And why is slavery so much condemnedandstroveagainst inonecase, andsohighly applauded, and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

- Mary Astell
  Some Reflections upon MarriageOccasion'd by the Duke and Duchess of Mazarine's Case which is also consider'd, preface (1706 edn).

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

- Margaret Eleanor Atwood
True Stories,'Variation on the Word Sleep'.

It is necessary for mortals to be worn with toil.

-Euripides
Hippolytus, l.207.

When it isnot necessary to change, it isnecessary not to change.

- Lucius Cary,Viscount Falkland
Speech, House of Commons, 22 Nov. Collected as'A Speech

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

- Hans Hoffman
  Search for the Real.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
^2  In The Rambler.

To these compositions is required neither genius nor knowledge, neither industry nor spriteliness, but contempt of shame, and indifference to truth are absolutely necessary.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Of journalistic reporting. In The Idler, no.31,11 Nov.

Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Plays of  William Shakespeare, preface.

Yes, they say, go and write whatever story you want, but don't use whatever language is necessary† By implication those in authority ask the writer to censor and suppressheror his ownwork.Theydemand it.If you don't comply then your work isn't produced.

-James Kelman
  Some Recent  Attacks,'The Importance of Glasgow in My Work'.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. No more things should be presumed than is necessary.

-William of Occam
This principle of intellectualeconomy, known as Occam's Razor, is not found in this form in his writings. Similar expressions can be found, eg Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate ('Plurality should not be posited unnecessarily'), in Scriptum in Librum Primum Sententiarum.

Information, freefrominterestorprejudice, freefromthe vanity of the writer or the influence of a Government, is as necessary to the human mind as pure air and water to the human body.

-William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg
  Christian Science Monitor, 22 Sep.

For those who believe in God no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe in God no explanation is possible.

- George pseudonym of  George Stenius Seaton
  Prologue to The Song of Bernadette.

Le superflu, chose tre'  s ne  cessaire. The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

-Voltaire pseudonym of  Fran c° ois Marie Arouet
  Le Mondain.