Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial but an indispensable experience which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

Strong advocacy for education health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

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

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Two qualities are indispensable: first an intellect that even in the darkest hour retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

In the end the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning rather than protesting that like some poor relation they don't cost much to be housed.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

For art to exist for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing intelligent crazy creative strange and indispensable magazine.