Unnecessary Quotations | Page 2

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.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them.

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

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.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an imitation of Jesus, but be Jesus, You are quite as great as Jesus, Buddha, or anybody else. If we are not ... we must struggle and be. I would not be exactly like Jesus. It is unnecessary that I should be born a Jew.

Science makes god unnecessary.

Theology is unnecessary.

No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.

One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.

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

I've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.

All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.