Necessity Quotes

1320 Necessity quotes by 894 unique authors

Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I… — Jacques Derrida
Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love. — Plato
Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment. — Jay Samit
Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention — Andy Hargreaves
Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its… — Jacques Monod
Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else. — Etty Hillesum
It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is… — Isak Dinesen
A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity! — Isaac
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the… — Abraham Lincoln
If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could… — C.S. Lewis
Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept… — Albert Schweitzer
Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of… — Friedrich August von Hayek
All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is… — William Shakespeare
Coming to know the hidden and forgotten Mother and the marvelous wisdom of the sacred feminine as revealed from every side and angle by the… — Andrew Harvey
Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The… — Swami Vivekananda
The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary. — Aristotle
I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it… — Arnold Bennett
Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity. — Marquis de Sade
The person who is motivated by necessity is interested in what's known and what's secure. The person who is motivated by possibility is equally interested… — Tony Robbins
Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather… — Paul Bailey
But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the governments have generally… — Noah Webster
That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain… — James Madison
History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious… — Benjamin Franklin
For, when the credit of a country is in any degree questionable, it never fails to give on extravagant premium, in one shape or another,… — Alexander Hamilton
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more. — Barbara Tuchman

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