Necessity Quotes

1320 Necessity quotes by 894 unique authors

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am… — David Brainerd
Now the question is, now that we are there, what should we do in the best interest of the U.S., not only from a standpoint… — Mike Huckabee
The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity… — Adolf Hitler
To take pictures had become a necessity and I did not want to forgo it for anything. — Inge Morath
The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go… — Adrienne Rich
The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity in secret to… — Edward Snowden
I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's… — Emmeline Pankhurst
I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on… — Fredrik Bajer
There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity… — Georg Cantor
Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not… — M. Scott Peck
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important. — Walter Lippmann
Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor. — Pope Leo XIII
To refuse any bond of union between man and civil society, on the one hand, and God the Creator and consequently the supreme Law-giver, on… — Pope Leo XIII
To the shepherds alone was given all power to teach, to judge, to direct; on the faithful was imposed the duty of following their teaching,… — Pope Leo XIII
Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The basic reason lies… — Yvon Chouinard
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. — Elwyn Brooks White
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's… — Thomas More
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in… — Thomas More
Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings? — Edouard Manet
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. — Jean Toomer
We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a… — Joan Halifax
The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to… — Christian Lous Lange
The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things. Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source. Just as the… — Willy Ley
One remarkable feature of the devotional masters is the incredible sense of uniform witness in the midst of such diverse personalities... and the necessity of… — Richard J. Foster

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