Necessity Quotes

The force of necessity is irresistible.

— Aeschylus

History is at once freedom and necessity.

— Antonio Gramsci

“Freedom is the opposite of necessity.”

— Immanuel Kant

Out of necessity comes genius.

— Pam Grier

Necessity is God's veil.

— Simone Weil

Good writers are of necessity rare.

— George Henry Lewes

We make allowance for necessity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Education is a basic necessity.

— Vijay Sethupathi

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

— Herbert Spencer

An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.

— Eric Maisel

“A man's actions are determined by necessity, external and internal.”

— Albert Einstein

Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.

— Luc de Clapiers

“the liftman in the tube is an eternal necessity...”

— Virginia Woolf

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

— Euripides

Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Education is an organic necessity of a human being.

— Horace Mann

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit…

— Thales

I got to the stage where I physically couldn't carry on unless I gave comedy a go: it was necessity.

— Greg Davies

The things I do outside of playing the piano are done out of an inner necessity, not just because I want to…

— Stephen Hough

“Stop living for necessity and it’s time to live for your wishes. For me, the journey is more important than the destination.”

— Vivek Thangaswamy

“It is necessary to find ways of solving problem at the expense of available resources”

— Sunday Adelaja

I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.

— Brenda Laurel

“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.

— Robert Stone

We are producing something people can live without. But we need to keep thinking what would make our products a priority purchase…

— Satoru Iwata

I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a…

— Camille Paglia

My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not…

— John Updike

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on…

— Steve Swallow

Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity,…

— Carl Jung

Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a…

— Anonymous

“The necessity for a water-based canopy about the earth is not directly stated in the text. It is an interpretation of the…

— Ken Ham

War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of…

— Robert Southey

“oxygen Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even, while it calls the earth its home, the soul. So the merciful, noisy machine…

— Mary Oliver

“A chorus of voices exhorts kids to study science. No one stops to ask whether it is inhumane to force adolescents to…

— Theodore J. Kaczynski

The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Beneath a necessity thus almighty, what is artificial in man's life seems insignificant. He seems to take his task so minutely from…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Some people refer to a ‘just war’ or a ‘war of necessity’ and others posit that it is simply an illusion to…

— Sinachi Ukpabi

“In consequence of Darwin 's reformed Theory of Descent, we are now in a position to establish scientifically the groundwork of a…

— Ernst Haeckel

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“he declares the necessity of men and his dependence on them as a channel through which to exert his power upon the…

— E.M. Bounds