
The want of parsimony, in time of peace, imposes the necessity of contracting debt in time of war. When —
Adam Smith

He's using you as his external, aftermarket conscience. —
James S.A. Corey

So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil. —
Niccolo Machiavelli

Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned —
Roger Waters
The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law. —
Walter Raleigh

As long as you're not hurting anybody else, as long as you're being kind to people and you're doing what you love, only good things can come of it. —
Jason Silva

The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace. —
Millard Fillmore

The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect —
Tariq Ramadan

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. —
Albert Einstein

I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror. —
Sam Harris

It is necessary to understand that war is common, strife is customary, and all things happen because of strife and necessity. —
Heraclitus

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental. —
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity. —
Margaret Mead

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. —
Norman Mailer

Because he'll take me to Cuba and I don't want to go to Cuba. —
Elian Gonzalez

The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility. —
Mahatma Gandhi

It's an utter, utter necessity to renounce war forever. And nothing new can be built until this is done. —
Benjamin Creme