Necessary Quotes

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

We got a lot of letters of people who didn’t like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and unpleasant and taking advantage of women in a sad situation – I never saw that. And I think that sometimes, you have to take a risk.

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.

Very few Westerners, I thought, could tolerate such a way of life- for it would mean having to forgo the luxuries which we had come to think of as necessities.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.

The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.