Necessity Quotes · Page 6

Necessity, the tyrant's plea

— John Milton

Necessity is the author of change.

— Tim Hansel

Necessity, the mother of invention.

— Anonymous

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

— Friedrich Engels

Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.

— Euripides

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

— Democritus

Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.

— Horace

We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

— Caroline Myss

“Reality cannot breathe without imagination.”

— Lionel Suggs

Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

— Immanuel Kant

“again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.”

— Italo Calvino

Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage.

— Anonymous

Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

One of the only things that bothered me with WWE and being on every week was blowing off so many great storylines…

— Edge

“Is a First Lady truly a necessity? Shouldn't each wife of a president have a right to choose to accept the position…

— Venita Ellick

Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. A plurality (of reasons) should not be posited without necessity.

— William of Ockham

I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.

— Amy Sedaris

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

— Walter Raleigh

In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is…

— Adam Smith

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the…

— Bernard Barton

“nirvana, must of necessity happen by itself. It not only cannot but must not be induced by trying and willing, since anything…

— Alan W. Watts

The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the…

— Hjalmar Schacht

God's command to "pray without ceasing" is founded on the necessity we have of His grace to preserve the life of God…

— John Wesley

“Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but it is the mother of any number of other things as well: sacrifice…

— James S.A. Corey

“...we of necessity, are more dependent upon the Spirit to guide us through the vicissitudes of life. Therefore, we are led to…

— Richard G. Scott

Play is the best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We…

— Darell Hammond

Repeatedly we question the necessity of our actions and evaluate critically the reasons for carrying them out. But in flow there is…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to…

— Mindy Kaling

“By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth…

— Henry David Thoreau

Confidence is not a choice, it's a necessity.

— Anonymous

Peace is not a luxury. Peace is a necessity.

— Ashraf Ghani

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

— Plato

“necessity had no respect for law. Even custom must bow to it at times.”

— S. M. Stirling

To live intensely is a basic human necessity.

— Jessica Zafra

“Realise that there is no necessity to always be serious.”

— Steven Redhead

My studio was lo-fi by necessity; I was fourteen with no reliable income.

— Porter Robinson

“There is no necessity to accept the undesirable.”

— Steven Redhead

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

— Yann Martel

Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.

— Neal A. Maxwell