Necessity Quotes

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War is only an invention, not a biological necessity. — Margaret Mead
Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared? — Dante Alighieri
Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and… — Michel de Montaigne
I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity… — Wystan Hugh Auden
What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased… — Emile M. Cioran
There ought to be a law against necessity. — Yip Harburg
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. — Boethius
It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to feel that it… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth,… — Ludwig Feuerbach
The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are… — Alexander Pope
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his… — Euripides
Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve. — Euripides
Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be… — Simone de Beauvoir
It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was… — Rainer Maria Rilke
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… — James A. Baldwin
Not even Ares battles against necessity. — Sophocles
Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art. — Alfred North Whitehead
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not… — Andrew Jackson
Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable. — Ivan Illich
Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity. — Epicurus
Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is… — Reinhold Niebuhr
I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity. — Theophile Gautier

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