Necessity Quotes

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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken. — Betty Ford
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says,… — James Hillman
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. — Victor Hugo
Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long… — Muhammad Iqbal
There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly. — John Irving
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience. — Charles Ives
So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our… — Joan Jett
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity… — Lyndon B. Johnson
So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something. — Samuel Johnson
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with… — Carl Jung
There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we… — Franz Kafka
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has… — John F. Kennedy
When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the… — Charles Krauthammer
No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process. — Louis L'Amour
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its… — Jacques Lacan
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. — Dalai Lama
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but,… — Rosa Luxemburg
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. — Niccolo Machiavelli
You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence… — Maimonides
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. — Karl Marx
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. — Karl A. Menninger
Working out is not a luxury, it's a necessity. — Marisa Miller
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. — Max Muller
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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