#dispensable

India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#before #brutal #contribution #defeat #fascism

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#brute force #charm #effect #employing #force

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#analysis #becomes #constant #domain #even

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable. ↗

— Andre Gide

#done #exists #faithful #indispensable #make

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it. ↗

— George Gilder

#culture #dispensable #family #feels #his

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#campaign #despotism #during #indispensable #long

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#indispensable #little #men #our #pretty

The graveyards are full of indispensable men. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#graveyards #indispensable #men

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#condition #education #indispensable #life #personal

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#any #being #fervent #good #his