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Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

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Don Marquis
American - Novelist
July 29, 1878 - December 29, 1937

The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives

Barack Obama

I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary. We will be free, by any means necessary.

H. Rap Brown

If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.

Quentin Crisp

Peace is necessary. For justice, it is necessary. For hope, it is necessary, for our future.

Harry Belafonte

Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.

P. J. O'Rourke

We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary.

Epicurus

In order to contract, It is necessary first to expand. In order to weaken, It is necessary first to strengthen. In order to destroy, It is first necessary to promote. In order to grasp, It is necessary first to give. This is called subtle light. The weak and the tender overcome the hard and the strong.

Laozi

Theatre, film and television are all modes of storytelling, and many of us are fortunate enough to move freely among them without feeling that we've 'left' or need to 'go back' to one or the other. In fact, if the theatre is to avoid a brain drain, this kind of fluidity is increasingly necessary.

Theresa Rebeck

When you hear me say "by any means necessary," I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct unjust conditions-political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary.

Malcolm X

The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount of politeness and consideration necessary to ensure that the cramped journey was as pleasant as possible afterwards. What is necessary? That was the unspoken but implied, and unavoidable question everywhere in India.

Gregory David Roberts

Having strength, having a strong military, is the ally of peace. Exercising that strength through military action is not always necessary if you have the confidence and clarity of vision and purpose which America demands.

Mitt Romney

Full democracy requires the full participation of women. Your voices are vital. The word 'vital' means necessary for life. A democracy, to be fully alive, must include all its citizens.

Swanee Hunt

The cold, basic truth is that you are a vital and necessary part of this world

L. Ron Hubbard

suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.

Phyllis McGinley

Either Christ is a liar or war is never necessary, and very properly assuming that Christ told the truth, it follows that the State is without [in the words of Father Macksey] 'judicial authority to determine when war is necessary,' because it is never necessary.

Ben Salmon

Good literature is absolutely necessary for a society that wants to be free.

Mario Vargas Llosa

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