Necessity Quotes

1320 Necessity quotes by 894 unique authors

It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that… — Howard Barker
Characters are born from necessity. — Christopher Paolini
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in… — Steven Erikson
Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity. — Che Guevara
I believe that numbers and functions of Analysis are not the arbitrary result of our minds; I think that they exist outside of us, with… — Charles Hermite
Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have… — Clive Bell
Holiness is not a luxury, it's a necessity. If you're not holy, you'll never make it to Heaven [Heb. 12:14]. — Leonard Ravenhill
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature. — Herbert Spencer
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity — Alfred Russel Wallace
The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing… — Fred Hoyle
But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of… — Hugh MacLennan
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise. — Larry Wall
When they [the Church] have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of… — Roger Williams
Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious,… — Dogen
Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire. — Aristotle
It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented… — Thomas a Kempis
The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence. — Charles Fourier
The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as… — Eric Hobsbawm
In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but only in that… — Ernst Mach
Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it… — Samael Aun Weor
The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators. — William Henry Harrison
The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the… — Vilfredo Pareto
The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one country… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as… — Rollo May
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. — I. M. Pei

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