Necessity Quotes · Page 15

No amount of kindness is ever unnecessary for any human heart.

— Terry Mark

Not even the gods fight against necessity.

— Anonymous

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends

— Coco Chanel

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.

— Plato

Necessity makes laws, but does not obey them

— Woodrow T Wilson

Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity.

— Haddon W. Robinson

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

— Saint Augustine

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

— Sigmund Freud

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.

— Jacques Ellul

Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.

— Victor Hugo

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us…

— Jenny Shipley

“... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...”

— Eric Chaisson

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on…

— Vivienne Westwood

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain…

— William Petty

Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to…

— Pablo Picasso

Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger,…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human…

— Levi Woodbury

I'm part of the tribe who have said goodbye to one parent and are feeling a sense of responsibility for the one…

— Patti Davis

I need all of my songs while I'm writing them, because I need to get the stuff out of my body and…

— Jacob Anderson

I do not believe that God has created us under this dire necessity to toil, like beasts, to sustain life. I believe…

— William Lloyd Garrison

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the…

— Nikola Tesla

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

— Thomas A. Edison

“Priorities are simple to establish; what is desire and what is necessity?”

— T.F. Hodge

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

— William Henry Harrison

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

— Margaret Mead

Working out is not a luxury, it's a necessity.

— Marisa Miller

There ought to be a law against necessity.

— Anonymous

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

— Jules Verne

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Flannel pajamas are definitely a necessity during the holiday season.

— Jill Zarin

Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.

— John Calvin

She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.

— Lincoln Kirstein

We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity.

— Leonard Cohen

Necessity is the mother-in-law of patents.

— The Covert Comic Aka John Alejandro King

Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.

— Joseph Brodsky

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

— Euripides

Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.

— William of Ockham