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Necessity Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of…
- The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't…
- People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves…
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