Necessity Quotes

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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly… — Hannah Arendt
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. — Saint Augustine
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. — Edward Abbey
Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to… — Eric Bana
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill… — John Adams
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man. — Bruce Barton
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. — Robert Benchley
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore… — John Berger
Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less… — Annie Besant
Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations… — Annie Besant
Physical contact is a human necessity. — David Byrne
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity. — Lord Byron
In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all.… — Albert Camus
Necessity dispenseth with decorum. — Thomas Carlyle
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free… — Thomas Carlyle
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages… — Nelson Algren
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of… — Raymond Chandler
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood.… — Ray Charles
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself… — Agatha Christie

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