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Necessity Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the…
- An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good…
- What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is…
- Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
- From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one…
- Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had…
- Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If…
- One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes
- I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity,…
More Necessity Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — 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… — Eric Bana
- The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a… — John Adams
- No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank… — 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… — John Berger
- Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole,… — Annie Besant
- Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake… — Annie Besant
- Physical contact is a human necessity. — David Byrne
- The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity. — Lord Byron