History Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

— Joseph Brodsky

The concept of historical necessity is the product of rational thought and arrived in Russia by the Western route. The idea of the noble…

— Joseph Brodsky

The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.

— Henri Matisse

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity,…

— Rosa Luxemburg

This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in…

— Terence McKenna

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can…

— James F. Cooper

And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

— Lord Byron

Pardon is granted to necessity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the…

— Pope Gregory I

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

— William Petty

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

— William of Ockham

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment…

— Salmon P. Chase