A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.
Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.
Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally evident that to be able to borrow upon good terms, it is essential that the credit of a nation should be well established.
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life
Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.
Courage is essential to leadership.
Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.
Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.
Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.
Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.
Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.
The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.
Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.
What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again.
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories.
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.
Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.
The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution... I intend to succeed where they failed.
