Necessity Quotes · Page 7

Poetry is a necessity of life,

— C.D. Wright

Art is a luxury but also a necessity.

— Edwidge Danticat

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

— Albert Einstein

Characters are born from necessity.

— Christopher Paolini

“Necessity can obliterate our hatreds.”

— Daniel H. Wilson

All government is an ugly necessity.

— Anonymous

Necessity knows no law.

— Aesop

Necessity hath no law

— Oliver Cromwell

Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

— Andy Hargreaves

It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.

— Seneca the Younger

Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride.

— Anonymous

Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.

— Jean-Marie Messier

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

— Audre Lorde

To take pictures had become a necessity and I did not want to forgo it for anything.

— Inge Morath

Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one…

— Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you're walking down a street and you spot a moose?

— Pat Paulsen

When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from…

— Kajol

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

— William Pitt The Younger

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

— Jules Verne

Nothing but a necessity invincible by any other means can justify ... a prostitution of laws, which constitute the pillars of our…

— Thomas Jefferson

The problem for me is that 'Watchmen,' one of the great comics of all time, is a look at superheroes that has…

— Joss Whedon

One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is…

— Kathleen Wynne

“...[W]e must admit that... law must be valid, not merely for men, but for all rational creatures generally, not merely under certain…

— Immanuel Kant

All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be…

— Raymond Chandler

I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was…

— Joel Edgerton

“Caldris led them over to a large covered basket that sat on the stones near the docked dinghy. He undid the cover,…

— Scott Lynch

A lot of the best managers in the game were forced into it by financial necessity. From Sir Alex Ferguson to Jurgen…

— Jermaine Jenas

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl…

— William Safire

For us necessity is not as of old an image without us, with whom we can do warfare; it is a magic…

— Walter Pater

The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance,…

— William J. Brennan

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

— Publilius Syrus

“Necessity is a mother.”

— David Carr

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Necessity was the master of invention”

— C.J. Roberts

Necessity does everything well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

— Barbara Boxer

Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

— Joseph Joubert