Necessity Quotes

1320 Necessity quotes by 894 unique authors

...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all peoples… — Alfonso Garcia Robles
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing. — Seneca the Younger
It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the… — Unknown Author
Our work seeks to focus attention on the necessity of developing security for the global village, meeting its need for clean air, water, food and… — Rosalie Bertell
Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself. — Alice Hegan Rice
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
O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity. — Herbert C. Brown
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is… — Alfred North Whitehead
No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or… — Henry David Thoreau
Chance and necessity. — Jacques Monod
An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition. — Benjamin Tucker
If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State. — Benjamin Tucker
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… — Ayn Rand
While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware of this fact,… — Cornelius Castoriadis
The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up. You have to cut every step with an ice… — Charles Spurgeon
Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps… — M.F.K. Fisher
As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not… — William Howard Taft
Unless you see yourself standing there with the shrieking crowd, full of hostility and hatred for the holy and innocent Lamb of God, you don’t… — C. J. Mahaney
But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action… — Steven Brust
Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our… — Leigh Hunt
Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable. — Marshall Ganz
True greatness, first of all, is a thing of the heart. It is alive with robust and generous sympathies. It is neither behind its age… — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally… — Giambattista Vico
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest… — Jeremy Bentham
If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before. — John Ashcroft

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