Freedom is the direct opposite of necessity; freedom is…

The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the opposite of…

— Vasily Grossman

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

— Friedrich Engels

Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.

— Max Beckmann

“Freedom is the opposite of necessity.”

— Immanuel Kant

They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.

— Anais Nin

See, I don't get the sense that you need to direct at all. Sometimes I get the opposite sensation from you, that you're like,…

— Edward Norton

“Man has been placed on that summit where he contains within him the source of self-impulsion toward good and evil in equal measure; the…

— Friedrich Schelling

“The national unity of a free people depends upon a sufficiently even balance of political power to make it impracticable for the administration to…

— Walter Lippmann

“freedom must be won under the compulsion of a necessity. Freedom for the church comes from the necessity of the Word of God.”

— Eric Metaxas

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never…

— Hannah Arendt

“Once upon a time, Freedom and Necessity were identical; but now what is understood by freedom is in fact indiscipline.”

— Oswald Spengler

Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition…

— Whittaker Chambers

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

— Garet Garrett

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

— Walter Lippmann