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Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.


Ludwig Quidde


#attained #been #carried #consideration #declaring

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.


Elias Canetti


#pessimists #right #superfluous

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.


Hans Kung


#declaration #essence #ethic #however #human

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.


Boris Vian


#black #black music #easily #elements #following

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.


Ingrid Bergman


#become #designed #kiss #lovely #nature

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.


Will Durant


#asks #because #case #his #laws

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.


Leonardo da Vinci


#because #devise #direct #does #her

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.


Edward Gibbon


#dispositions #efficacy #except #happy #instruction

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.


Abbe Pierre


#become #beggars #general #givers #i

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


#dash #force #foreign #grow #men






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